Hostname: page-component-7b7567c8c-dljnn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-12T04:53:27.659Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Surprise, surprise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2002

Daniel C. Dennett
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155 ddennett@tufts.edu ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button.

The authors show that some long-standing confusions and problems can be avoided by thinking of perception in terms of sensorimotor contingencies, a close kin to my heterophenomenological approach (Dennett 1991). However, their claim that subjects do not have any commitments about the resolution of their visual fields is belied by the surprise routinely expressed by subjects when this is demonstrated to them.

Information

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press