Valentina:My point is that our brain *combines* visual or other stimuli with a bank of *non-*visual data in order to extract relevant information.
This is a v. important point. There is no such thing as *single sense cognition*. Cognition is actually *common sense*/*multisensory*. Michael Tye is v. big on this. You cannot just look at/see something. You are simultaneously hearing/ smelling/ kinaesthetically aware of its distance from you and relation to you, etc.. You cannot separate one sense from the rest - even though, intellectually, we have the illusion that we can. That illusion is partly the price of using language, which fragments into pieces what is actually a continuous common sense, integrated response to the world. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=108809214-a0d121 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
