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Finally, StrattonΓÇÖs own
theory adds to confusion about
the outcome. He believed that
harmony between touch and
sight is the ultimate meaning
of uprightness. After a lifetime
of experience, he began the
experiment with certain touch
sensations closely associated
with certain visual sensations.
Therefore, when he put on the
inverting lenses, he found that
if he touched an object before
seeing it, he did not receive the
visual sensation that he
expected to have when he
looked in that direction. The
converse was true for objects
seen before they were touched.
Over the course of the
experiment, new associations
between touch and sight
gradually supplanted the old
ones. This reestablishment of
intersensory harmony,
Stratton argued, accounted for
his increasingly frequent
experiences of the world as
upright. Thus, to BerkeleyΓÇÖs
question (With respect to what
does the scene appear to be
inverted?) Stratton answered,
With respect to other sense
modalities, such as touch.
However, it is not immediately
evident why such harmony
between the senses should, in
itself, restore either egocentric
or environmental uprightness
of vision.