Folk Intuitions about the Causal Theory of Perception

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Folk Intuitions about the Causal Theory of Perception
Pendaran Roberts, Keith Allen, Kelly Schmidtke, Ergo, 2017/02/10
If I see a clock, my perception of the clock is caused by the clock. Right? This is the so-called 'folk intuition' about perception, but not only is it not clear that it is true, it is not even clear that ordinary people (aka 'folk') think it is true. More...