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[dreamer_easy]

"The reason for including a chapter on disorders of semantic knowledge in a book on visual agnosia is not simply for the sake of distinguishing the two classes of problems. Vision and semantics are intimately related, and the whole purpose of visual object recognition is to access semantic knowledge about seen objects. We didn't evolve visual systems just to see the shape, color, texture, and movement of the tiger in the bushes; we needed to see those properties so that we could access further nonvisual knowledge, such as 'One of those ate Harry last week.'"
- Martha J. Farah, Visual Agnosia (2nd ed.)

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[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

...now imagining an icon based on the final sentence of that excerpt. Heh.