Hoffman [15] endorsed faithful depiction, arguing that to understand perception we must ask, “First, why does the visual system need to organize and interpret the images formed on the retinas? Second, how does it remain true to the real wor…the Rear-Mirror: Romantic Aesthetics, Culture, and Science Seen from Today. Festschrift for Frederick Burwick on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, ed. W. Pape (WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier: Trier) (Studien zur Englischen Roma…
Alva Noë
philosopher · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Alva Noë is a philosopher of perception and cognition who argues that perception is not a passive reception of visual data but an active, embodied process requiring movement and exploration. The course readings invoke Noë's work to challenge representationalist accounts of vision—particularly in dialogue with Donald Hoffman's interface theory—by emphasizing how consciousness emerges through sensorimotor engagement with the world rather than through faithful internal depiction. This framework matters for understanding how artificial perception systems might differ fundamentally from human perception, raising questions about what it would mean for an AI to "see" without embodied interaction.
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