The regress assumes each level requires identical explanatory machinery; but perception of sense-data might operate through different, non-representational mechanisms than object-perception.
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Any mental activity that brings something before the mind; the basic unit of mental life in Hume's theory of ideas.
sense-data(Argument from illusion in philosophy of perception)
The objects experienced in cases of illusion — things that have the features the perceiver takes themselves to be experiencing, but which are not material things or elements in the environment independent of the individual experiencer.