"We do not have direct access to the physical world. It may feel as if we have direct access, but this is an illusion created by our own brain." - Frith 2007, Reductionism in Art and Brain Science, Eric Kandel page 23
Chris Frith 2007, cognitive psychologist.
What I perceive are not the crude and ambiguous cues that impinge from the outside world onto my eyes and my ears and my fingers. I perceive something much richer - a picture that combines all these crude signals with the wealth of past experience ... Our perception of the world is a fantasy that coincides with reality. - Chris Frith 2007, cognitive psychologist.