Lehar (rightly) insists on the volumetric character of our experience of space. He claims
that three-dimensional space stems from the functional three-dimensional topology of the brain. But
his “Gestalt Bubble” model of volumetric space bears an intrinsically static structure—a kind of
theater, or “diorama,” bound to the visual modality. We call attention to the ambivalence of Gestalt
legacy and question the status and precise import of Lehar's model and the phenomenology that
motivates it.