"267","Filling in versus finding out: A ubiquitous confusion in cognitive science","One of the things you learn if you read books and articles in (or about) cognitive science is that the brain does a lot of \"filling in\"--not filling in, but \"filling in\"--in scare quotes. My claim today will be that this way of talking is not a safe bit of shorthand, or an innocent bit of temporizing, but a source of deep confusion and error. The phenomena described in terms of \"filling in\" are real, surprising, and theoretically important, but it is a mistake to conceive of them as instances of something being filled in, for that vivid phrase always suggests too much--sometimes a little too much, but often a lot too much. Here are some examples (my boldface throughout).","http://cogprints.org/267/","Dennett, Daniel","Pick, Van den Broek","       <span class=\"person_name\">Dennett, Daniel</span>     (1992)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/267/\"><em>Filling in versus finding out: A ubiquitous confusion in cognitive science.</em></a>       [Book Chapter]           ","","1992"