Thank you very much. I am quite familiar with Hoffman's proposals for perception, so what I needed was a summary of his other ideas.

Taking the perspective of Lisa Feldman Barrett, I would suggest that a table has no reality except as a learned agreement between two or more beings. Such a configuration of atoms has no more substance than the word "table". Without another being in the world, I might choose to sit at or put things on a table, but until there is some reason to communicate those experiences, there is no table.