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It's more complicated than that - other senses such as sight are also part of the representation. Blind people who regain their sight do not recognise cubes and
by cromulent 8y ago
It's more complicated than that - other senses such as sight are also part of the representation. Blind people who regain their sight do not recognise cubes and spheres that they would recognise by touch.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/people-cured-blindness-see https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/people-cured-blindne...
- escherplex 8y agoTrue. Also have to factor in the proprioceptive sense, EG, index finger in neurologically mapped space pressing on the arm of a chair. But what about the condition where an index finger is pressing against an adjacent thumb? Here percepts involve two conjoined sensors reporting as both sensors and objects being sensed. What's the priority source of the sensation?
- AstralStorm 8y agoWhy should there be any? Advanced neural networks can easily take in such ambiguous inputs. Heck, even contradictory, explaining a few illusions in the process.