[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# Shape / Not-Shape

## Details

**Reported in** Distinctions Organize Information in Mind and Nature (D)

**Authors** Cabrera D, Cabrera L, Cabrera E

**Year** 2022

**Publisher** Systems 10(2):41

[Read it at the publisher](https://doi.org/10.3390/systems10020041) 
10.3390/systems10020041

## In authors' words

### How they did it (methods)

Identify the square, triangle and circle; then identify what is not each shape.

### What they found (results)

>90% on both the positive shapes and the negated ones.

## Commentary

### Response

Negating a shape is nearly free when the alternatives are themselves visible shapes. Compare NOT-OBJECT at 52% where the other was empty space.

Shows the structure is there

## Questions it bears on

- Q3. [Does this organization (O) exist in the mind, and in what minds produce?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/completeness-mind)
- Q4. [Does this organization (O) exist in reality?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/completeness-reality)

**How to cite this** Cabrera D, Cabrera L, Cabrera E (2022). Shape / Not-Shape. Systems 10(2):41.