ABSTRACT

Introduction

My purpose for this paper is to show that although the brain is a computational device, naturalistic explanations of its processing do not require a strong commitment to internal representations. Aside from resolving questions of ontology, the following consideration motivates this project: providing a plausible computational frame weak from which to mechanisticly explain how the mind/brain works, yet that is consistent with a situated action approach to cognition. The type of cognitive processing of concern here is vision.