[If] we can experimentally isolate a process and show that … - David Marr

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[If] we can experimentally isolate a process and show that it can still work well, then it cannot require complex interaction with other parts of vision and can therefore be understood relatively well on its own.

David Marr

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David Courtnay Marr (19 January 1945 – 17 November 1980) was a British neuroscientist and psychologist, known for integrating results from psychology, artificial intelligence, and neurophysiology into new models of visual processing.

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A representation is a formal system for making explicit certain entities or types of information, together with a specification of how the system does this. And I shall call the result of using a representation to describe a given entity a description of the entity in that representation.

The abstract properties of this mapping are defined precisely, and its appropriateness and adequacy for the task at hand are demonstrated.

The primitives of a representation are the most elementary units of shape information available in a representation.

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