To explain: on the hypothesis that the mind is modular, a mental module is a kind of semi-independent department of the mind which deals with particular types of inputs, and gives particular types of outputs, and whose inner workings are not accessible to the conscious awareness of the person – all one can get access to are the relevant outputs. This issue is intertwined with more general questions about the modularity of mind and cognitive penetration. The Duck-Rabbit, among other ambiguous figures, has been cited in debates over this issue (Silins 2015: §2.4). It is generally agreed that the retinal image is constant when experiencing the figure, but what is not agreed is whether the visual experience of the figure changes when the perspectival switch takes place between seeing the duck versus the rabbit, or whether the experience itself does not change, and it is some post-experiential belief, judgment, or other mental process which changes. There is some controversy over how the Duck-Rabbit Ambiguous Figure works.
There are many example of ambiguous figures which you can search for in this illusions index. The Duck-Rabbit Ambiguous Figure belongs in a large class of illusions where a two-dimensional figure, or three-dimensional object can be seen in two or more sharply distinct ways. It was subsequently published and popularised by Jospeh Jastrow (1900). The Duck-Rabbit Ambiguous Figure was created by an anonymous illustrator in late 19 th Century Germany, and first published in 1892 in the humour magazine Fliegende Blätter.
0 kommentar(er)
