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What does it mean, to see? Most people would, I think, agree that the act of seeing is the process of discovering from the images falling on our retinas what is actually present in the world, and where it is. This entitles us to regard vision first and foremost as an information processing task, but we cannot think of it just as a process. For if we are capable of knowing what is where in the world, our brains must somehow be capable of obtaining not only this information from images, but also of representing it—in all its profusion of color and form, beauty, motion and detail. The study of vision must therefore include not only the study of how to extract from images the various aspects of the world that are useful to us, but it must also inquire into the nature of the internal representations by which we capture this information, and thus make it available as a basis for decisions about our thoughts and actions.
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Marr, D. (1987). Understanding vision from images to shapes. In: Vaina, L.M. (eds) Matters of Intelligence. Synthese Library, vol 188. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3833-5_2
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