Perception and the Cartesian Theater

V.J. Torley has written a thoughtful reply to my recent post about perception. I appreciate his insights, which are substantial, but I disagree with his basic premise. I wish to assure him here that I am not, as the graphic accompanying his post would suggest, barking at the moon.

Torley:

[Egnor] makes a fantastic claim which is foreign to Aristotle's thinking: he asserts that whenever you perceive a distant object, your perception of that object occurs outside your body, rather than inside...