Mysteries of Visual Experience
Abstract
Science is a crowning glory of the human spirit and its applications remain our best hope for social progress. But there are limitations to current science and perhaps to any science. The general mind-body problem is known to be intractable and currently mysterious. This is one of many deep problems that are universally agreed to be beyond the current purview of Science, including quantum phenomena, etc. But all of these famous unsolved problems are either remote from everyday experience (entanglement, dark matter) or are hard to even define sharply (phenomenology, consciousness, etc.). An updated summary of this work has been published as: Feldman, J. (2022). Computation, perception, and mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E48. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21001886 A more readable, open access, version is: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cs78450
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1604.08612,
title = {Mysteries of Visual Experience},
author = {Jerome Feldman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.08612},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
This 3/27/2022 revision retains all the original text but adds new comments (in italics) There are several new references, connecting with current research