Edelman Shimon
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2015 Dec;22(6):1519-22. doi: 10.3758/s13423-014-0741-z. Epub 2014 Oct 11.
Hoffman, Singh, and Prakash (2014) observe that perception evolves to serve as an interface between the perceiver and the world and proceed to reason that percepts need not, or even cannot, resemble their objects. I accept their premise, but argue that there are interesting ways in which perception can be truthful, with regard not to "objects" but to relations, and that evolutionary pressure is expected to favor rather than rule out such veridicality.
霍夫曼、辛格和普拉卡什（2014年）观察到，感知的进化是为了充当感知者与世界之间的接口，并进而推断出感知不一定、甚至不可能与它们的对象相似。我接受他们的前提，但认为存在一些有趣的方式，在这些方式中，感知可以是真实的，这不是关于“对象”，而是关于关系，并且进化压力预期会有利于而不是排除这种真实性。
