There is a non-sequitur in the article that is easy to refute. Look again at the photos and notice we never see the bee, only the ‘bee’, i.e., an image or photo of the bee. If we only compare images, realistic photos and indistinct photos, we are indeed only hallucinating and simulating. But the moment the difference is made between image and object, we are no longer hallucinating or simulating, but making a reference to reality. The artist Magritte teaches us this lesson, by painting the image of a pipe and calling it ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’ (This is not a pipe). Too bad pop-neuroscientists never learned the lesson of the ‘Treachery of images’.

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