"A Bradford book."Kosslyn (psychology, Harvard U.) presents a 20-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery -- offering his research as a definitive resolution of the long-standing "imagery debate," which centers on the nature of the internal representation of visual mental imagery. He combines insights and empirical results from computer vision, neurobiology, a…
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Problems in linking representation and perceived things in the world are discussed in light of the role played by a preconceptual indexing mechanism that functions to identify, reidentify, and track objects.
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Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An analysis of the "demonstration"-from protests to tech product demos and everything in between-to draw out their peculiarities and common features"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."Experiences and feelings are inherently conscious states. There is something it is like to feel pain, to have an itch, to experience bright red. Philosophers call this sort of consciousness "phenomenal consciousness." Even though phenomenal consciousness seems to be a relatively primitive matter, something more widespread in nature than higher-order or reflective consciousness…