Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness (MIT Press) by David Bennett & Christopher Hill

Author:David Bennett & Christopher Hill [Bennett, David]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2014-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

Suppose a man born blind and taught to distinguish by his touch a single raised dot from a pair of raised dots (as Braille readers can do). Suppose the blind man made to see, and presented with a single visible dot on the left and a pair on the right. Quaere: whether by his sight and before he touched them, he could now distinguish and tell, which is the single and which the pair?

My thought had been that every reason Berkeley has for saying no to the original Molyneux question is also a reason for saying no to the one-two Molyneux question. Yet I also thought there would be something bizarrely defective about a subject who was stymied by the crossmodal number recognition task. In consequence, I took there to be something deeply implausible about Berkeley’s overall position.

Does Sinha have data on the one-two question? I notice that one of his target-distractor pairs consists of two blocks that differ only in that one cylinder projects from one of them and two from the other (Held et al., 2011, fig. 1). I do not know whether any other target-distractor pairs differed only in a one-versus-two way or whether such pairs were used often enough to generate any useful statistics. I would love to see an experiment dedicated to the one-two Molyneux question.

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