Cognitive Inference

                                    Cognitive Inference

What is the process by which we see things? Most who think we see
things would suggest that the process is one of perceptual inference.
Then the question becomes how do we think of things that are not
perceptual in nature and have no direct perceptual referrents? My
contention is that this process represents cognitive inference.

Now the question is how? If we consider that perceptual inference uses
differences the answer becomes obvious. If the brain/mind complex
takes differences in order to establish perceptual properties, why not
just take differences among such differences to establish a basis for
cognitive iinference.

The suggestion then is that perceptual inference is drawn among
properties in the visual field but that cognitive inference is drawn
between properties in different perceptual fields.



Regards - Lester