Mind that Epistemic Gap! Perceptions Reside Within, not Outside of, Reality

Hoffman and colleagues propose the Interface Theory of Perception (ITP), which asserts that perceptions evolved to render organisms sensitive to the objective world in terms of payoffs, or fitness functions, not truth. But ITP is nonetheless a correspondence theory of perception--and therein lies the problem.

Source: Psychonomic Society News - September 22, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news