Shimon Edelman bases a comprehensive approach to visual representation on the notion of
correspondence between proximal (internal) and distal similarities in objects. Researchers
have long sought to understand what the brain does when we see an object, what two
people have in common when they see the same object, and what a" seeing" machine
would need to have in common with a human visual system. Recent neurobiological and
computational advances in the study of vision have now brought us close to answering …