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from the interview-with-the-Descartes-demon-*The-reports-of-my-being-a-total-deceiver-have-been-greatly-exaggerated* dept. [LINK] In traditional notions of naive realism, our perception is taken for granted to somehow be a transparent contact with the environment, where what we view and sense as physical qualities are "out there" rather than mental states in our brains. In philosophy of mind, representationalism is a generalized label for arguments which contend that the world we see in conscious experience is actually a virtual-reality replica of the real world. This information site by cognitive scientist Steven Lehar covers: (1) What Is Representationalism? (2) Why Representationalism? (3) Common Objections to Representationalism (4) Some Debates With the Opposition (5) Implications of Representationalism (6) History of Representationalism (7) Contemporary Representationalists http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/Representationalism.html < | >
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