How do we begin to characterize our experience of an information object? In this sketch, I adopt Chudnoff's distinctions between perception and intuition; then Turing's brief references to the utility of intuition serve as a point of departure from intuition to computation and perhaps to information. (P1) Perceptual experiences are sui generis experiences; they should not be identified with doxastic attitudes or dispositions-such as beliefs, or inclinations to believe. (P2) Perceptual experiences possess presentational phenomenology; whenever you have a perceptual experience representing that p, there is some q (maybe = p) such that-in the same experience-it perceptually seems to you that q, and you seem to be sensorily aware of the chunk of reality that makes q true.
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