Abstract
This chapter discusses computer perception, namely, machine perception and machine comprehension. The boundary between the machine perception and machine comprehension is not at all clear. Very roughly, in perception a sentient being organizes the sensations of the physical world into entities, and establishes an internal representation of the external world which depicts the important relationships among the recognized entities. In comprehension the internal representation itself is manipulated to derive some output message. The actions required to do this may include a comparison of the internal representation of the current world to any number of real or imagined representations of other worlds. The reason that computer perception is so limited is quite simple. The retinal image is an ambiguous representation of the physical world.
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