Computational Image
Berry claims that between the scientific and manifest image (Sellar), there is a third one, the computational image, which does not physically mediate between human and machine, but nevertheless, through its vicariousness, can create a connection and allow phenomenology and transfer of experience.
This attempt to reconcile the two images in computer science is linked to a notion of massive computational power in order to reassemble the shards of experience that technical devices capture into a continuous and seamless human experience. In effect, computation aims to perform this task by fooling our senses, assembling the present-at-hand objects together at a speed that exceeds our ability to perceive the disjunctures. (Page 130)
Vicarious indicates that there are interesting implications relating to the mediated relationship that we have with this âhiddenâ computational world that is revealed only through transformation and translation of its internal functioning into a form that is projected into our phenomenal experience. (Page 138)