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Johns Hopkins University: Researchers Run 'Philosophy Experiment' in a Lab to Test Objectivity of Vision
June 09, 2020
BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 9 -- Johns Hopkins University issued the following news release on June 8:

Johns Hopkins University researchers who study the mind and brain used methods from cognitive science to test a long-standing philosophical question: Can people see the world objectively?

Their answer, set to be published today by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is a flat no.

With a novel series of experiments using sophisticated computer gr . . .

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