In this essay I will write about the strengths and weaknesses of perception as a way of knowing. Perception is the way we perceive the world through our senses. We use all five of our senses, which are sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch to understand the world and interpret it. We can then say it’s a Primary way of knowledge. We can also say that, because the senses is the way our body communicates, we have at least three more senses: kinesthetic sense, which is our awareness of our body’s dimensions and movement; vestibular sense, which is the awareness of the human’s balance and spacial orientation; and organic sense, which is the manifest of the internal organs (for example, hunger or thirst). But can our senses trick us and affect what we know of the world? How can we know that the reality we know is simply a figment of our imagination?
Perception can be divided into two parts: the sensation, which is what is provided by the world (the stimulus to the senses) and the interpretation, which is when our mind turns the sensation into information for us. Perception lets us interact with the world that surrounds us. With perception, it is much more easy way to know something. As said before, with perception we go to the ‘source’ and take our own conclusions of
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We have been used to living with perception so we molded our living around our senses and most of the knowledge we acquire is through them. However there are certain flaws to it, such as optical illusions and background that influences our perception, that makes us question how accurate our way of seeing the world is. Overall, sense perception is a good way of knowing if shared with other people so, with all the different perceptions of the world due to different life experiences, it all can be combined in a greater a more accurate perception of
In the book, Sensing World, Sensing Wisdom: The Cognitive Foundation of Biblical Metaphors, by Nicole L. Tilford –specifically in Chapter 3—the abstract metaphor that “perception is cognition,” is explored. According to Tilford, “cognition is seeing, cognition is hearing, or cognition is smelling,” and humans are able to describe their ways of thinking by their actions and experiences. Humans, being imaginative creatures, are capable of conjuring conflicting conceptualizations of experiences based on their sensory cognitive inputs. However, in situations where cognitive inputs or sensory experiences are absent, these perception/cognitive mechanisms are strained --and it becomes difficult to identify what is what. This passage of text from Zampanò reminds of this passage from Sensing World, Sensing Wisdom: The Cognitive Foundation of Biblical Metaphors, because it mirrors Tilford’s interpretation of subjective perception.
PSY 108 - Psychology Unit 5 Assignment Explain the ways in which culture and gender contribute to sexual behavior and expectations about that behavior. 75 Points Grading Rubric: Required Discussion Elements Point Value Thorough explanation of ways culture contributes to sexual behavior and expectations 20 Thorough explanation of ways gender contributes to sexual behavior and expectations 20 Proper citation of the material. 15 No spelling or grammar errors.
It is true that we perceive different aspects
The common expression that “seeing is believing” is a misinterpreted saying. What many people don’t know is that what we see is actually just an illusion. For example, when we see a sunset, it seems like magnificent colors are exploding into a motion picture. In reality, there is a vast hole in our vision, that corresponds to the optic nerve in the retina. As we look at things we should see this large black spot but our brains fill in that hole instead by coating over it and filling in the gaps with our memories of the location.
Therefore, observing is very important in shaping our perception of the world. From noticing the sky, the sea, the trees, the animals, and others subjects, we gradually understand what this world is
Often, the way we perceive something is altered or controlled by someone/something. Like mentioned earlier, we have our more ordinary influences, like social norms/expectations. But in many cases our perception is tailored. In Brave New World, the Government had complete control over the society's perception. The Government did this by only allowing people to see what they wanted them to see, and not really supporting personal perception.
Based on these reasons, do not trust perception and reality. It can lead to one doing something unreasonable or unwise. Just because someone perceives something will be one way, doesn’t mean it’s true in reality. Perception is what regular human beings jump straight to when they see something. Reality is realized later by people.
Fortunately, the brain is exceptional at picking up the slack from a lost sense and is able to find new ways to deal with such stimuli. When a person is blind, the brain rewires itself to create surroundings in a different way. In some cases, people consider thinking to be an imageless process; one that is controlled entirely by descriptive propositions (Sacks340). Unfortunately, these descriptive propositions can become altered by other people. If a blind person was lied to about his or her surroundings, they would have no choice but to believe the lie because the person who told them that can see what is going on around them.
But since, he assumes that he is in a dream all of his senses are falsified so, he just thinks that he sense those things and concludes that sensing is just thinking. He later continue with the physical objects and their reality, he takes a wax as an example because taking a general concept
In order to be right about claiming that the senses do deceive, a person should have recognized that an error has actually occurred. So the person distinguished between being mistaken and being correct. (For example knowing that heat mirages on the roads are deceptions, one has successfully classed them as optical illusion). Thus one is able to see through the deception and thus avoid being deceived. Oddly, it must be concluded that in presenting examples of how the senses deceive, one is also presenting examples of how we are able to see through deceptions.
The material world is the one we can see, touch, hear and smell, are just false truths of the reality. By relying just on your senses is making yourself blind from the real world. The world we see is a reflection of the forms the real world represents. By understanding these forms can lead to true
Sense knowledge refers to knowing matter as it is presented to us, imagination knowledge refers to the ability to grasp the figure of an object apart from matter and reason is characteristic of human beings accounting for universal features, and intelligence is of the divine, looking beyond the universe toward eternal truths. These types of knowledge exist hieratically, ascending from organisms to animals to humans to the divine, where each ascending level of knowledge is capable of understand the levels beneath it not that above. This in turn means that human’s do not possess the
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is an inspiring read that displays how others point of view can change the perspective of others. Throughout the book, many of the characters perception of other characters can change the aspect of a persona. For example, Arthur Radley, also known as Boo, is perceived as a very mean person. Also, Tom Robinson is accused of being a rapist. Finally, the town’s people perceive many characters such as Dolphus Raymond, for being an alcoholic.
Indirect perception implies that it is not actually of the environment itself but a cognitive representation of the environment that we percieve, assembeled by and existing in the brain. It is by the process of construction in which our seneses consult memories of prior experience before delivering a visual interpretation of the visual world. It argues that there is no direct way to examine objects that is independent of our conception; that perception is