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Originally Posted by LadyShea
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My evidence is how the brain is able to project words (that contain values) onto real substance that have no corresponding accuracy. If sight was afferent, the brain could not do this.
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Sure the brain could do that. No reason at all to think the brain can't do that. The brain, after all, creates the images in the standard model of vision, so the brain creating those images with inaccurate values incorporated is perfectly logical. In fact, I even agree that conditioning might easily lead to such an occurrence. |
In fact the brain does do this it is a well known psychological occurance that the brain is conditioned to assign values to certain images, and these values would be represented by words. This is in fact how language is learned that words are taught in conjunction with the images or objects they refer to. Other words that do not represent things are learned by hearing them and mimicking their use. So, many words are learned by associating them with images of things, all this is well understood in conjunction with afferent vision because it happens in the brain and is not really part of vision, vision only supplies the images while hearing supplies the words and later the words are learned through reading, all the conditioning is internal to the brain.