...or the brain simply needs more information to identify the cup than the tip of a single finger provides. If we touched the cup with our finger, but this tim

...or the brain simply needs more information to identify the cup than the tip of a single finger provides. If we touched the cup with our finger, but this time we didn't touch it with the tip of our finger but with the whole finger, we would vastly increase the chances of recognizing the object. This means the brain doesn't hold individual representations of objects per body part, but it fuses what its sensors say into a single model and then tests all its sensory input (the input from all the senses) against what is stored internally. If we grab something like a cup with our full hand, we would certainly identify the object as a cup, but it might not be a cup actually. This means all our senses participate in object identification. Thus I don't think the theory of thousand AIs is correct.