Can we answer the unanswerable?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (3):397-398 (1999)
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Abstract

Pylyshyn circumvents an even more fundamental question: Are the mechanisms of visual perception accessible to the theoretician? Neurophysiology, computer modeling, and psychophysics, as well as his definitions of visual phenomena suggest that he has asked an unanswerable question.

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