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can we perceive without interpreting?
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Jacob Bronowsky discusses this a bit in *The Origins of Knowledge and Interpretation*. The illustration he gives is the way that the eye converts light into the electrical signals that transmit it to the brain where it's reconstructed as images. The general implication of all this is that perception is, itself, an act of interpretation. Take away that interpretation of light into synaptic signals, and we're no more perceptive than a stone.