Acting on What You are Perceiving: The Two-Visual-Systems Hypothesis Revisited

Two-Visual-Systems Hypothesis Revisited

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  • Bin Zhao Institute of Foreign Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Rd., Haidian Dist., Beijing 100871, China 0000-0001-7432-9632
10.5281/zenodo.10874499

Abstract

The two-visual-systems hypothesis proposed by Goodale and Milner is a radical one. If it were to be true, then our common sense such as we are acting on what we are perceiving should be completely abandoned. In this paper, I argue that the hypothesis over-generalizes what happens in simple tasks to what happens in complex tasks. By contrast, I demonstrate that what happens in complex tasks is compatible with our common sense. In a word, though what we are acting on may come apart from what we are perceiving in some cases, that is not the whole story.

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Bin Zhao, Institute of Foreign Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Rd., Haidian Dist., Beijing 100871, China

Institute of Foreign Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Rd., Haidian Dist., Beijing 100871, China

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Published

23.03.2024

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Zhao, B. (2024). Acting on What You are Perceiving: The Two-Visual-Systems Hypothesis Revisited: Two-Visual-Systems Hypothesis Revisited. Journal of NeuroPhilosophy, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10874499

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024)

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