Our theories of perceptual categorization must be informed by explicit dynamical models of perceptual evolution, models such as those studied in evolutionary game theory [14, 26, 33]. Our perceptual categories are shaped inter alia by facto…Most experts assume that perception estimates true properties of an objective world. They justify this assumption with an argument from evolution: Natural selection rewards true perceptions. I propose instead that if true perceptions crop u…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…
Louis Narens
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Louis Narens appears in these readings primarily in connection with evolutionary game theory approaches to perception and categorization. The excerpts invoke his work to support arguments about how natural selection shapes perceptual systems—particularly Donald Hoffman's controversial claim that evolution selects *against* true perception rather than for it. Narens's theoretical framework seems to enable a formalization of perceptual dynamics that moves beyond naive realism, treating perception as an adaptive strategy rather than a mirror of objective reality.
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