Images aren't primitive explanatory concepts
To be explanatory, images must play a role in causal explanations. Experience suggests they do not. Images in themselves (prior to interpretation) are epiphenomena that ride above a causal substrate of propositions, like foam rides atop a wave.
Zenon Pylyshyn (1973).

Note: Pylyshyn argues elsewhere that, in general, conscious processes lack explanatory power.
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