Abstract
Nearly all philosophers assume that human beings are capable of well over a million different conscious visual responses to coloured surfaces (and they then debate whether this shows that some mental representation is non-conceptual). I deny the premise. In this paper I argue that humans are capable of only a limited range of colour responses to surfaces presented singly (along with a gestalt ability to register that adjacently presented surfaces are different-in-colour). This may be counterintuitive, but it accommodates the empirical data better than the standard view, and also resolves various philosophical puzzles.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Kings College London, University of London |
| Pages | N/A |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 18 Aug 2013 |