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	The Macmilan and Free Press "Encyclopedia of Philosophy" says
the key point of Representative Realism is "That perceiving proper is
the direct awareness of sensa; perceiving external objects is
redefined as perceiving sensa caused by them, and so all our awareness
is strictly limited to sensa."  Evidently this idea originated with
Descartes and Locke but is very unpopular with philosophers, evidently
because it is usually linked so strongly with unpopular ideas of
Dualism.  A similar idea, Critical Realism, seems similar but is
supposedly slightly different.

	Steve Lehar and I are working on a paper that argues for a
"Representative theory of perception".  This theory is not dualistic
at least as far as dualism is considered to include something other
than brain states and not the "cartesian theater" at least as far as
"another little observer sitting in the theater" is required.  We are
completely amazed at the lack of information and difficulty of finding
writings about such a theory that seems so powerful and natural.

	If you are interestind in this kind of info, or if there is
anyone that knows of writings or people that have any info either for
or against this type of theory I would greatly appreciate hearing from
you.

	Also, if anyone knows of a good inexpensive way to search
philosophy literature for such information this kind of info would
also be greately appreciated.

	Please e-mail any responses since I am cross posting this to
several groups and may miss a reply to one of the groups.

	Thank You

		Brent Allsop
		allsop@fc.hp.com