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Can we answer the unanswerable?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

William R. Uttal
William R. Uttal
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5906 aowru@asu.edu
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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
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 397 - 398
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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