Brent Meeker wrote:
> No, I think Colin has point there. Your phenomenal view adds a lot of assumptions to the sensory data in constructing an internal model of what you see. These assumptions are hard-wired by evolution. It is situations in which these assumptions are false that produce optical illusions.
It depends on what you mean by information. Our hardwiring allows us to
make
better-than-chance guesses about what is really out there. But it is
not
information *about* what is really out there -- it doesn't come from
the external world in the way sensory data does.
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Received on Sun Nov 26 2006 - 14:47:14 PST