ABSTRACT
Molyneux’s question was born as a philosophical problem. In this respect, Molyneux’s question has offered inspiration for the construction of various experiments on visual restoration, with emphasis on the possibility of regaining specific visual capacities after blindness. As Toribio further explains, the question pertains to a more general conundrum about how certain properties involved in being a sphere or being a cube play a role in perception: a problem concerning perceptual categorization and judgement involving a cognitive phenomenology depending on memory. Thus, Toribio suggests: in order for the interface cognition-perception system to count new visual cues as characteristic or not, it should be able to match them with cues already stored in memory. The idea is that visual representations need development to work correctly and we cannot dispose of any methodology allowing us to offer recovery to our visual brain without violating the constraints imposed by Molyneux’s question, of avoiding perceptual learning.
