Mental Imagery
Bence Nanay,
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
Dec 12, 2021
I spent a lot of time working on the topic of mental imagery in my PhD studies. Despite references to people like Shepard and Kosslyn, I find the author tends toward a more representationalist understanding of mental imagery (as when he says, "Mental imagery is a form of representation") and mental content (the rock upon which my PhD foundered, because I don't think mental content exists, and I wouldn't allow them to make me say it exists). "The format of a representation is different from its content," says Bence Nanay, which to me is the exactly opposite of the (much more correct) "The medium is the message." But hey - I'm not the one writing the encyclopedia article, he is.
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