Visual Conviction
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چکیده
The state of mind of a fallible, rational, self-conscious, visual observer is considered with regard to the questions: what distinguishes visual knowledge from other kinds of knowledge, and what is the strongest warrant for belief that such an observer can hold? The answer given to the first question is that visual knowledge is any kind of knowledge that the observer could hold in a two-way, spatial mapping with a possible sensory image. The answer given to the second question is that the observer can not have meta-knowledge of any kind, including self-conscious knowledge, but can, at best, hold meta-convictions, where conviction is defined to be consistently justified belief. Consistency checking gives rise to a method for invoking mental strategies by checking their consistency with justified beliefs. Thus consistency checking might bootstrap intelligence.
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