Ignorance and the Brain: Are There Distinct Kinds of Unknowns?. Smithson, M. & Pushkarskaya, H. In Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. Routledge, 2 edition, 2022. Num Pages: 14abstract bibtex This chapter presents a brief review of selected findings and themes from both literatures. The brain is a human organ responsible for processing external and internal information and deciding how to respond to new information. A self-described “ultra” sceptical viewpoint on whether brain imaging tells us anything about what the mind does is Coltheart’s position. Multistability occurs when a stimulus produces alternations among different interpretations of the stimulus. However, studies of perceptual switching have not yet resolved at which stage in the hierarchy of visual cortical areas the activity corresponds to the perceptual state. An obvious obstacle to studying what the brain does in naturalistic decision making or perception is simply that the requisite technology for measuring or manipulating brain activity in a controlled fashion makes it impossible to do brain imaging while the subject is engaged in everyday life.
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