What people report is not properties of their image but of the objects they are imagining. Such properties as color, shape, size and so on are clearl… - Zenon Pylyshyn

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What people report is not properties of their image but of the objects they are imagining. Such properties as color, shape, size and so on are clearly properties of the objects that are being imagined. This distinction is crucial. The seemingly innocent scope slip that takes image of object X with property Pro mean (image of object X) with property P instead of the correct image of (object X with property P) is probably the most ubiquitous and damaging conclusion in the whole imagery literature.

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Zenon Walter Pylyshyn (born August 25 1937) (died December 6 2022 ) was a Canadian cognitive scientist and philosopher, and Professor of Psychology and Computer science at the . He was known for his work in the field of computation and cognition.

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[If] we equip the programmed computer with transducers so it can interact freely with a natural environment and a linguistic one, as well as the power to make inferences, it is far from obvious what if any latitude the theorist (who knows how the transducers operate and therefore what they respond to) would still have in assigning a coherent interpretation to the functional states so as to capture psychologically relevant regularities in behavior. If the answer is that the theorist is left with no latitude beyond the usual inductive indeterminism all theories have in the face of finite data, it would be perverse to deny that these states had the semantic content assigned to them by the theory.

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