Editing (section) Representative realism 0 You are not logged in. The rich text editor does not work with JavaScript switched off. Please either enable it in your browser options, or visit your preferences to switch to the old MediaWiki editor <h3>Dualism</h3> <p data-rte-fromparser="true">A problem with representationalism is that if simple data flow and <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22information%20processing%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22information%20processing%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5Binformation%20processing%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="989-2282722535de99bcdd7444" href="/wiki/Information_processing" title="Information processing" class="mw-redirect">information processing</a> is assumed then something in the brain, described as a <i><a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22homunculus%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22homunculus%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5Bhomunculus%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="989-2282722535de99bcdd7444" href="/wiki/Homunculus" title="Homunculus">homunculus</a></i>, must be viewing the perception. This suggests that some physical effect or phenomenon other than simple data flow and <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22information%20processing%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22information%20processing%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5Binformation%20processing%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="989-2282722535de99bcdd7444" href="/wiki/Information_processing" title="Information processing" class="mw-redirect">information processing</a> might be involved in perception. This was not an issue for the <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22rationalist%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22rationalism%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5Brationalism%7Crationalist%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="989-2282722535de99bcdd7444" href="/wiki/Rationalism" title="Rationalism">rationalist</a> philosophers such as Descartes, since <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Cartesian%20dualism%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Dualism%20%28philosophy%20of%20mind%29%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BDualism%20%28philosophy%20of%20mind%29%7CCartesian%20dualism%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="989-2282722535de99bcdd7444" href="/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind)" title="Dualism (philosophy of mind)" class="mw-redirect">Cartesian dualism</a> held that there is a supernatural "homunculus" in the form of the soul. For those who doubt dualism, explaining precisely what it is that sees the representation is problematic. But if the transfer of information into a "mind" is thought to be the only explanation of how we indeed see, then it falls foul of the <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22homunculus%20fallacy%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22homunculus%20fallacy%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5Bhomunculus%20fallacy%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="989-2282722535de99bcdd7444" class="new" title="Homunculus fallacy (page does not exist)" rel="nofollow" data-uncrawlable-url="L3dpa2kvSG9tdW5jdWx1c19mYWxsYWN5P2FjdGlvbj1lZGl0JnJlZGxpbms9MQ==">homunculus fallacy</a> which would suggest that either representationalism is an incomplete or invalid description of perception or some supernatural intervention or non-<a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22materialist%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22materialism%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5Bmaterialism%7Cmaterialist%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="989-2282722535de99bcdd7444" href="/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism">materialist</a>, <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22physicalist%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22physicalism%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5Bphysicalism%7Cphysicalist%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="989-2282722535de99bcdd7444" href="/wiki/Physicalism" title="Physicalism">physicalist</a> explanation is needed. Aristotle realised this and simply proposed that ideas themselves (representations) must be aware - in other words that there is no further transfer of sense impressions beyond ideas. <!-- RTE::{"spaces":0,"type":"LINE_BREAK"} --><img data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22image%22%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BImage%3ARep-perception.jpg%7Ccenter%7C700px%5D%5D%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Rep-perception.jpg%22%2C%22params%22%3A%7B%22alt%22%3A%22Rep-perception%22%2C%22align%22%3A%22center%22%2C%22caption%22%3A%22%22%2C%22width%22%3A700%7D%7D" data-rte-instance="989-2282722535de99bcdd7444" alt="" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/psychology/images/9/9b/Rep-perception.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/700?cb=20070704131236" width="700" height="289" class="image alignCenter" data-image-name="Rep-perception.jpg" data-image-key="Rep-perception.jpg" type="image" /> </p><p /> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key psychology:rte-parser-cache:33213 --> Loading editor Below are some commonly used wiki markup codes. 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