Visual Imagery as the Simulation of Vision
作者:
GREGORY CURRIE,
期刊:
Mind&Language
(WILEY Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 10,
issue 1‐2
页码: 25-44
ISSN:0268-1064
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0017.1995.tb00004.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Abstract:Simulation Theory says we need not rely exclusively on prepositional knowledge of other minds in order to explain the actions of others. Seeking to know what you will do, I imagine myself in your situation, and see what decision I come up with. I argue that this conception of simulation naturally generalizes: various bits of our mental machine can be run‘off‐line’, fulfilling functions other than those they were made for. In particular, I suggest that visual imagery results when the visual system is run off‐line. I briefly review the empirical evidence and consider the philosophical implications, particularly concerning the mode of mental representation in
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