Category : E-Books
Author : Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Publisher : Unkown
Year : 2007
Page : 573
Language : English
File Type : Pdf
Size : 3,018 MB
Review :This book is about how we see and how we visualize. But it is equally about how we are easily misled by our everyday experience of these faculties. Galileo is said to have proclaimed (Galilei, 1610/1983; quoted in Slezak, 2002), “. . . if men had been born blind, philosophy would be more perfect, because it would lack many false assumptions that have been taken from the sense of sight.”
Many deep puzzles arise when we try to understand the nature of visual perception, visual imagery, or visual thinking. As we try to formulate scientific questions about these human capacities we immediately find ourselves being entranced by the view from within. This view, which the linguist Kenneth Pike (Pike, 1967) has referred to as the emic perspective (as opposed to the external or etic perspective), is both essential and perilous. As scientists we cannot ignore the contents of our conscious experience, because this is one of the principal ways of knowing what we see and what our thoughts are about. On the other hand, the contents of our conscious experience are also insidious, because they lead us to believe that we can see directly into our own minds and observe the causes of our cognitive processes.
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