Does perception replicate the external world?
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (4):415-416 (2003)
| Abstract | Vision scientists standardly assume that the goal of vision is to recover properties of the external world. Lehar's “miniature, virtual-reality replica of the external world inside our head” (target article, sect. 10) is an example of this assumption. I propose instead, on evolutionary grounds, that the goal of vision is simply to provide a useful user interface to the external world. | |||||||||
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