Phenomenal Causality and Sensory Realism

Audiovisual phenomenal causality.

We report three experiments in which visual or audiovisual displays depicted a surface (target) set into motion shortly after one or more events occurred. A visual motion was used as an initial event, followed directly either by the target motion or by one of three marker events: a collision sound, a blink of the target stimulus, or the blink together with the sound. The delay between the initi...

An information integration approach to phenomenal causality.

Phenomenal causality was studied by using Michotte's launch event, in which successive motion of two objects evokes an immediate perception that the first motion causes the second. Information integration theory was used to address the complementary issues of invariant perceptual structure and individual differences in phenomenal causality. Three informational cues were varied conjointly: tempo...

Locality, Causality, and Realism in the Derivation of Bell’s Inequality

For several years, a significant disagreement has persisted between, on the one hand (mainly) philosophers, and, on the other hand, (mainly) physicists concerning the consequences of the empirical violation of Bell’s inequality. On the one hand, it is claimed that the empirical violations of Bell’s inequality shows us that the world is “non-local”, which might give rise to a serious conflict wi...

Kantian Causality and Quantum Quarks : The Compatibility between Quantum Mechanics and Kant ’ s Phenomenal World

Quantum indeterminism seems incompatible with Kant’s defense of causality in his Second Analogy. The Copenhagen interpretation also takes quantum theory as evidence for anti-realism. This article argues that the law of causality, as transcendental, applies only to the world as observable, not to hypothetical (unobservable) objects such as quarks, detectable only by high energy accelerators. Tak...

Sensory realism and mediated aggression in video games