Sebastian, you’re right. I shouldn’t have exaggerated.
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I’m actually wondering right now if it’s right to say that one’s “eyes, retina, and optic nerve are constantly painting images in [one’s] visual cortex.” I’m thinking specifically of, e.g., Dennett’s discussion of “‘Filling in’ Versus Finding Out” in Consciousness Explained, but I’m having trouble right now finding a juicy bit to quote. The basic idea is that it’s problematic to think of vision as being like a camera that projects content onto a screen in the brain, because that just prompts the question of how that internal projection is seen—and we have a regress.
Sebastian, you’re right. I shouldn’t have exaggerated.
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I’m actually wondering right now if it’s right to say that one’s “eyes, retina, and optic nerve are constantly painting images in [one’s] visual cortex.” I’m thinking specifically of, e.g., Dennett’s discussion of “‘Filling in’ Versus Finding Out” in Consciousness Explained, but I’m having trouble right now finding a juicy bit to quote. The basic idea is that it’s problematic to think of vision as being like a camera that projects content onto a screen in the brain, because that just prompts the question of how that internal projection is seen—and we have a regress.