2015
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-014-0763-6
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Abstract: Hoffman, Singh, and Prakash (Psychonomic Review and Bulletin, 2015, in press) intend to show that perceptions are evolutionarily tuned to fitness rather than to truth. I argue, partly in accordance with their objective, that issues of 'truth' or 'veridicality' have no place in explanatory accounts of perception theory, and rather belong to either ordinary discourse or to philosophy. I regard, however, their general presumption that the evolutionary development of core achievements of the human perceptual sys… Show more

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“…The idea that our perceptions might reflect poorly, or not at all, the true structure of objective reality has a long history going back at least to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, according to which our perceptions are mere flickering shadows of reality cast on the wall of a cave by objects that remain unseen (for brief histories, see, e.g., Koenderink, 2015; Mausfeld, 2015). The interface theory of perception contributes to this lineage of ideas by (a) using evolutionary game theory to demonstrate that veridical perceptions generically go extinct and (b) providing the metaphor of the user interface to help elucidate how nonveridical perceptions can be useful and fitness enhancing (Hoffman, 2000, 2009).…”
Section: Concluding Thoughtsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The idea that our perceptions might reflect poorly, or not at all, the true structure of objective reality has a long history going back at least to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, according to which our perceptions are mere flickering shadows of reality cast on the wall of a cave by objects that remain unseen (for brief histories, see, e.g., Koenderink, 2015; Mausfeld, 2015). The interface theory of perception contributes to this lineage of ideas by (a) using evolutionary game theory to demonstrate that veridical perceptions generically go extinct and (b) providing the metaphor of the user interface to help elucidate how nonveridical perceptions can be useful and fitness enhancing (Hoffman, 2000, 2009).…”
Section: Concluding Thoughtsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We identify objects with the external world states because of their seeming causal power and independence, and because we are not aware of the many states giving rise to the same representation, i.e., we do not notice the non-injectivity. However, objects are the outputs of the visual system and not its inputs (Mausfeld, 2015).…”
Section: Concepts Ib: Partitions and The Doubling Of Ontologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…All definitions of illusions have taken for granted the idea that vision can be erroneous. However, many authors have questioned this assumption (see Mausfeld, 2002Mausfeld, , 2011Mausfeld, , 2015. The basic argument is that the activity and output of the sensory system are not something to which the notion of error-or the notion of truth-could be properly applied.…”
Section: Illusions and Errorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Here are some relevant quotations: "There may be no meaningful way to distinguish between those perceptions that should be classified as 'veridical' and those that should be classified as 'illusory'" (Rogers, 2017, p. 154); "It is hard to pin down what is being claimed in labeling an experience 'illusory'" (Schwartz, 2012, p. 25); "The very notion of veridicality itself, so often invoked in vision studies, is void" (Koenderink, 2014, p. 5); "Notions of 'perceptual errors' have greatly impeded theoretical progress in perception theory" (Mausfeld, 2011, p. 29); "The implication of a departure between perception and reality has little to no justification in post-Kantian scientific discourse" (Morgan, 2018, p. 9). This type of attitude toward illusions is also reflected in the very titles of some papers: "The illusion of visual illusions" (Schwartz, 2012); "Delusions about illusions" (Rogers, 2014); "Why the concept of 'visual illusions' is misleading" (Purves et al, 2017); "Notions such as 'truth' or 'correspondence to the objective worl' play no role in explanatory accounts of perception" (Mausfeld, 2015); and even "Illusion research: an infantile disorder?" (Braddick, 2018).…”
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confidence: 99%