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There will be no such thing as my image or someone else's.

If all bodies are seen in a mirror and the bodies themselves become transparent but the mirror images remain, my body will be where the mirror image is. And the criterion for something being my nose will be very different from its belonging to the body to which it is attached.

The person who says only the present is real because past and future are not here has before his mind the image of something moving.

This image is mispast present future leading, just as the blurred image we would draw of our visual field is misleading inasmuch as the field has no boundary.

That it seems to mean something is due to an image of well-known things.

Now we can replace a visual image by a painted picture, and the picture can be described in words.

Some people say we have an ideal before our minds in the same way we have a memory image when we recognise a colour.

The visual system, for example, does not have to encode the retinal image into something like an ordered sequence of phonemes in order to communicate with the hippocampus or frontal lobes.

As for real computers, they avail themselves of many representational formats, most of which are not particularly like sentences (relational databases, image files, list structures, and so on).

We take a pleasure in viewing the picture of a friend, when it is set before us; but when it is removed, rather choose to consider him directly than by reflection in an image, which is equally distant and obscure.