Pylyshyn proposes that the preconceptual perceptual field is populated by FINSTS, the mental representations that are the causal outcome of the interaction between a world and perceiver. The world includes objects that engage this system given its architecture whereby the system generates representations of appropriate objects if presented with them. These preconceptual mental representations come into being in order to allow the perceiver capacities in the visual field such as tracking moving objects. We can perceive a moving object as a continuing single, persisting individual, even as it…