Fig. 1. In a converging series of psychological experiments, I showed that if subjects are presented with the first stimulus shown below, a rotated parallelogram, they reference it in their minds to a non-rotated parallelogram, which they then reference to a rectangle, which they then reference to a square. The important thing to understand is that they are presented with only the first figure; and, from this, their minds generate the sequence shown. | back to text |