Mr Nemo
May 9, 2022

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Many thanks for that follow-up question.

Yes, I completely agree: Landy misses the point that it’s really possible to represent a complex state of affairs *as* complex, via pre-reflective, non-self-consciously conscious spatial & temporal intuition, hence essentially non-conceptually.

And I replied explicitly to Landy to that effect, on p. 79 in Cognition, Content, & the A Priori:

https://www.academia.edu/35801833/The_Rational_Human_Condition_5_Cognition_Content_and_the_A_Priori_A_Study_in_the_Philosophy_of_Mind_and_Knowledge_OUP_2015_

A good counterexample to Landy’s claim is the Necker Cube, whose spontaneously “flipping” aspects are incongruent mirror-reflected counterparts, like the right & left hands, hence their difference can’t be determined conceptually: yet, we immediately visually recognize the difference in complexity between the two distinct visual cube-arrays; & as it turns out, even some non-human animals, who presumably lack conceptual capacities altogether, visually experience the flipping Necker aspects too.

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Mr Nemo
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Formerly Captain Nemo. A not-so-very-angry, but still unemployed, full-time philosopher-nobody.

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