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This leads them to suggest that it follows that some (unconscious) intelligent agent (homunculus) is needed to evaluate the efficiency of each system.
Furthermore, this view may imply the postulation of a homunculus who looks at the internal representations.
It was, of course, not covered by the homunculus tradition of preexistence.
The first is the body-image homunculus, which we take to be our real "self" because that particular piece of the phenomenal world is under our direct volitional control.
Inference describes a form of logic, not necessarily an intelligent act, and certainly not something requiring a homunculus.
In the homunculus who is sitting in a mental projection room, watching an internal representation of the outside world?
There is no need of a homunculus for interpreting patterns in images, any more than there is a need for a homunculus in visual perception.
This closed loop system effectively exorcises the "homunculus" from the perceptual system, and confers no privileged status on any particular neural representation, filled-in or otherwise.
This is similar to the homunculus problem mentioned above, except now the homuncular mechanisms are explicit rather than inadvertent.
The ethnogenesis of 'nations' does not mean that they appear as little crystallized homunculi, carrying within them all the features of their later development.
It creates new homunculi, and it is also implausible from a purely phenomenological perspective.
The homunculus statistician in the brain would have checked the data - that is, the information presented - and not the hypothesis.
Certainly the "homunculus" problem has plagued psychology, and the difficulties of describing features of an internal mind are exacerbated when confronting the evolutionary past.
No more homunculi, no more little people in the head doing or saying or experiencing things!
There is no homunculus here viewing a reprojected wave front (image).
But if it does self-organize, we may be trapped in an infinite regress, with the self as a new homunculus.
However, the vehicles of meaning cannot themselves be meaningful in this sense on pain of the traditional regress of the homunculus pseudo-explanations.
In effect, this process reduces the whole of perception to the operations of a central homunculus that represents the self.
But then doesn't that make the controller a little homunculus?
And doesn't this homunculus need its own account of representation?

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