First, believe your eyes

Maniatis, Lydia Maria

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“…In reading science texts, you should constantly be aware of implicit references to the ALL SEEING EYE delusion." (Koenderink, 2014, p. 2) In reply, Maniatis (2015), Rose and Brown (2015), Todorović (2020), Rose (in preparation-a) and others have supported ontological Realism 2 -the belief that mind-independent entities exist -as a basic premise for understanding perception.…”

Section: The Metaphysics Of Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Thus a vigorous debate has been occurring within vision research recently over the extent to which our percepts are accurate, true and meaningful, and as to whether all -or some, or none -are illusory. (For example sceptical opinions are expressed by Koenderink, 2014;Rogers, 2014Rogers, , 2019Hoffman et al, 2015;Wagemans, 2015;Braddick, 2018;and Hoffman, 2019. Traditional views are supported by Todorović, 2014Todorović, , 2018Todorović, , 2020Maniatis, 2015;Rose, 2015, 2016, andin preparation-a;Tyler, 2016;Shapiro, 2018;and van Buren & Scholl, 2018. For overviews and collations see Hickok, 2015;Pinna & Reeves, 2017, Shapiro and Todorović, 2017, and Rose, 2018 An intuitive definition of illusions is that they are deviations of our percepts from the veridical representation of physical reality.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Perceiving the weird and the wonderful. The mysterious metaphysics of phenomenology, art and science.

Rose¹

2021

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What is it that appears to us: an objective reality or a subjective illusion? A brief history of the continental philosophical approach to this question is given, followed by an introduction to the recent continental movement toward Realism, which accepts there must be mind-independent entities of some kind. Yet if such an objective reality exists this raises the problem of how we can possibly conceptualise what exists and happens there, since by definition it is beyond our concepts — or at least beyond our current ones. Hence it seems mysterious, weird and wonderful. I illustrate how the arts and sciences have independently approached this question, and suggest some commonalities in their conclusions. Finally, I discuss the importance of individual differences in how we perceive and think.

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Section: The Metaphysics Of Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: The Metaphysics Of Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceiving the weird and the wonderful. The mysterious metaphysics of phenomenology, art and science.

Rose¹

2021

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“…In recent years there has been debate within the perception literature between phenomenologists and scientific realists, for example over the status of illusions. (For reviews see: Maniatis, 2015;Rose & Brown, 2015;Rose, 2018, in preparation-a, in preparation-b;Gomez-Marin, 2020;Todorović, 2020. ) Thus illusions are commonly defined as deviations of our percepts from the veridical representation of objective reality -but this requires there being a singular ground truth about that reality, or 'what is out there', which our percepts should in some way represent or match.…”

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The metaphysics of perception: enactivism, phenomenology and information.

Rose¹

2021

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Enactivism is a major research programme in the philosophy of perception. Yet its metaphysical status is unclear, since it is claimed to avoid both idealism and realism yet still has aspects of both within it. One attempt to solve this conundrum is based on the fusion of enactivism with phenomenology and the mathematical concept of symmetry breaking (Moss Brender, 2013). I suggest this is not entirely successful and propose it needs the addition of a multi-level, non-reductive metaphysics (for example, Informational Structural Realism). The processes we commonly call ‘perception’ are causal transfers of information at certain levels in the hierarchy of meaningful structures that comprise physical reality. Phenomenologists could use the word ‘perception’ metaphorically across all levels, although realists need not do so.

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“…This duality reflects the principal controversy between "empiricist" and "nativist" approches to perception (cf. Boring, 1942;Turner, 1994), and continues up to the present (see e. g. Rogers, 2014;Maniatis, 2015). The neurophysiology approach searches the basis of gois and related phenomena in the intrinsic properties of the visual system (Livingstone and Hubel, 1987;Eagleman, 2001).…”

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Geometric–optical illusions and Riemannian geometry

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Wackermann²

2016

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

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Geometric-optical illusions (goi) are a subclass of a vast variety of visual illusions. A special class of gois originates from the superposition of a simple geometric figure ("target") with an array of non-intersecting curvilinear elements ("context") that elicits a perceptual distortion of the target element. Here we specifically deal with the case of circular targets. Starting from the fact that (half)circles are geodesics in a model of hyperbolic geometry, we conceive of the deformations of the target as resulting from a context-induced perturbation of that "base" geometry. We present computational methods for predicting distorted shapes of the target in different contexts, and we report the results of a psychophysical pilot experiment with eight subjects and four contexts to test the predictions. Finally, we propose a common scheme for modeling gois associated with more general types of target curves, subsuming those studied previously.

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First, believe your eyes

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Perceiving the weird and the wonderful. The mysterious metaphysics of phenomenology, art and science.

Perceiving the weird and the wonderful. The mysterious metaphysics of phenomenology, art and science.

The metaphysics of perception: enactivism, phenomenology and information.

Geometric–optical illusions and Riemannian geometry

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