Experience, attention, and mental representation
O'Regan & Noë make plausible that perception involves mastery of sensory-motor dependencies. Their rejection of qualia, however, is less persuasive; as is their view that we see only what we are attending to. At times they seem to oppose “internal representation” in general; I argue that th...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Behavioral and brain sciences 2001-10, Vol.24 (5), p.978-979 |
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Zusammenfassung: | O'Regan & Noë make plausible that perception involves mastery of sensory-motor dependencies. Their rejection of qualia, however, is less persuasive; as is their view that we see only what we are attending to. At times they seem to oppose “internal representation” in general; I argue that they should in fact only be rejecting crude conceptions of brain picturing. |
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ISSN: | 0140-525X 1469-1825 |
DOI: | 10.1017/S0140525X0128011X |