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Can we answer the unanswerable?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

William R. Uttal
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5906 [email protected]

Abstract

Pylyshyn circumvents an even more fundamental question: Are the mechanisms of visual perception accessible to the theoretician? Neurophysiology, computer modeling, and psychophysics, as well as his definitions of visual phenomena suggest that he has asked an unanswerable question.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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