Transcription of Knowledge in perception and illusion - Richard Gregory
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Knowledge in perception and illusion1 Knowledge in perceptionand illusionRichard L GregoryFrom: Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B (1997) 352, 1121 1128 Department of Psychology, University of Bristol, 8 WoodlandRoad, Bristol BS8 1TA UKSummaryFollowing Hermann von Helmholtz, who described visualperceptions as unconscious inferences from sensory data andknowledge derived from the past, perceptions are regarded assimilar to predictive hypotheses of science, but arepsychologically projected into external space and accepted as ourmost immediate reality. There are increasing discrepanciesbetween perceptions and conceptions with science s advances,which makes it hard to define illusion .
when we consider two senses of ‘intelligence’: active processing of information (as supposedly measured in IQ tests) and available answers (as in ‘military intelligence’) These senses of ‘intelligence’ have been named by rough analogy with creating and the storing of energy as, potential intelligence and kinetic intelligence ...
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