# Mysteries of Visual Experience

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.08612 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1604.08612/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 28 Apr 2016.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Influence of the Geometry of the world model on Curiosity Based Exploration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.00188/) (2023)
- [Optimizing Integrated Information with a Prior Guided Random Search Algorithm](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.04589/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Science is a crowning glory of the human spirit and its applications remain our best hope for social progress. But there are limitations to current science and perhaps to any science. The general mind-body problem is known to be intractable and currently mysterious. This is one of many deep problems that are universally agreed to be beyond the current purview of Science, including quantum phenomena, etc. But all of these famous unsolved problems are either remote from everyday experience (entanglement, dark matter) or are hard to even define sharply (phenomenology, consciousness, etc.). An updated summary of this work has been published as: Feldman, J. (2022). Computation, perception, and mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E48. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21001886 A more readable, open access, version is: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cs78450