R L Gregory

Knowledge in perception and illusion.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences August 1, 1997 R L Gregory

Following Hermann von Helmholtz, who described visual perceptions as unconscious inferences from sensory data and knowledge derived from the past, perceptions are regarded as similar to predictive hypotheses of science, but are psychologically projected into external space and accepted as our most immediate reality. There are increasing discrepancies between perceptions and conceptions with...