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Things and Places

How the Mind Connects with the World

By: Zenon W. Pylyshyn

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How the Mind Connects with the World

By: Zenon W. Pylyshyn

The author argues that the process of incrementally constructing perceptual representations, solving the binding problem (determining which properties go together), and, more generally, grounding perceptual representations in experience arise from the nonconceptual capacity to pick out and keep track of a small number of sensory individuals. He proposes a mechanism in early vision that allows us to select a limited number of sensory objects, to reidentify each of them under certain conditions as the same individual seen before, and to keep track of their enduring individuality despite radical changes in their properties--all without the machinery of concepts, identity, and tenses. This mechanism, which he calls FINSTs (for "Fingers of Instantiation"), is responsible for our capacity to individuate and track several independently moving sensory objects--an ability that we exercise every waking minute, and one that can be understood as fundamental to the way we see and understand the world and to our sense of space.

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0262162458

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Seeing and Visualizing

It's Not what You Think

By: Zenon W. Pylyshyn

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It's Not what You Think

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How we see and how we visualize: why the scientific account differs from our experience.

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0262162172

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Minds without Meanings

An Essay on the Content of Concepts

By: Jerry A. Fodor,Zenon W. Pylyshyn

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Minds without Meanings

An Essay on the Content of Concepts

By: Jerry A. Fodor,Zenon W. Pylyshyn

Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property. In cognitive science, conceptual content is frequently understood as the “meaning” of a mental representation. This position raises largely empirical questions about what concepts are, what form they take in mental processes, and how they connect to the world they are about. In Minds without Meaning, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn review some of the proposals put forward to answer these questions and find that none of them is remotely defensible. Fodor and Pylyshyn determine that all of these proposals share a commitment to a two-factor theory of conceptual content, which holds that the content of a concept consists of its sense together with its reference. Fodor and Pylyshyn argue instead that there is no conclusive case against the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference as their sole semantic property. Such a theory, if correct, would provide for the naturalistic account of content that cognitive science lacks—and badly needs. Fodor and Pylyshyn offer a sketch of how this theory might be developed into an account of perceptual reference that is broadly compatible with empirical findings and with the view that the mental processes effecting perceptual reference are largely preconceptual, modular, and encapsulated.

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Seeing and Visualizing

It's Not what You Think

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How we see and how we visualize: why the scientific account differs from our experience.

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Minds without Meanings

An Essay on the Content of Concepts

By: Jerry A. Fodor,Zenon W. Pylyshyn

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An Essay on the Content of Concepts

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