What We See

We see (at least) three fundamentally different sorts of things: objects (a tomato), properties of these objects (the tomato's size, shape, color, orientation), and facts about them (that is a tomato, that is red). Stanford philosophy professor Fred Dretske discusses the first: our perception of objects. How many objects do we see in brief but attentive observation? The answer tells us something important about the nature of conscious perceptual experience. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures" [3/2008] [Humanities] [Show ID: 13821]

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Education

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• philosophy
• perception
• perceptual
• experience

[xpressivist]

TirianB, the answer is because you're ignorant of what he's talking about.lol

[somor98]

Knew nothing of Dretske till now. And now see that he's a freakin' genius.

[TheMightyHarihar]

You see what is there, not what is not. You don't have the memory to hold what was not there. It's basically "EVERYTHING- WHAT IS THERE= WHAT IS NOT THERE

[TheMightyHarihar]

The next thing he should look at is how DIFFERENT language affects object recognition and how lack of semantic knowledge affects perception.

[TheMightyHarihar]

mind rape. :D

[mikepousti]

he's a genius!

[2011rhythmdivine]

This is something new. It really got my interested. It might seem so basic but it isn't consciously known.

[soultorment27]

@HigherPlanes Non-epistemic seeing is common sense?

[soultorment27]

@HigherPlanes

Externalism is common sense? Reliabilism is common sense?