When1: 1943
Who: Kenneth Craik [Craik, Kenneth]
What: psychologist
Where: Britain
works\ Nature of Explanation [1943]
Detail: He lived 1914 to 1945 and studied eye adaptations to illumination changes.
Retina has adaptations to both light and dark. Adaptation adjusts illumination range expected, to make eye most efficient at detecting signals in that range. Adaptation is about expectations and is predictive, just as is all thinking. Brain models external reality and can make successful predictions, just as machines can predict. Retina has visual afterimages.
Mental processes build and use representations using rules.
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