Contents
1 Introduction
1
2 The Visual World
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What Do You See When You See?
7
A Scene on a Very Small Stage
8
The Vision of Robots
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Do We See the World Realistically?
12
The Shapes of Things
14
There Is No Innocent Eye
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A Necessary Deception
18
The Binding Problem
20
Dueling with Dualism
22
An Evening at the Cartesian Theatre
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A Peacock’s Tail: The Party Never Ends
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3 Gestalt
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Mental Life Gets Organized
29
Seeing the Whole Picture
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Thinking It and Speaking It
36
Growing the Tree of Knowledge
39
Are Gestalts Real?
43
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher of Gestalt
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