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The most significant general contribution of Gestalt theory to psychology is that it identified a holistic global principle of perceptual computation that appears to be fundamentally different from any kind of man-made computational device. It is vitally important to quantify the principles behind this holistic computational strategy before we can hope to understand the brain, or to build a computational device that operates on the same essential principles as our own brain.
I propose that the holistic computational principle identified by Gestalt theory can be characterized by the four essential properties:
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