Perception is not Reality Is what you see always what is true? No. Optical illusions trick our eyes and brain. During a magic show, we see magic, but nothing “magical” is actually happening. What we perceive is also not always real. Sometimes what we feel about a situation is not actually what will happen. Seeing is not believing. Perception is not reality.
We see patients in a vegetative state as unconscious. They do not speak or respond to sounds, hunger, or pain. They are basically brain dead, right? This is not true. The article “Saving the Lost” by Reynaldo Vasquez explained that many of the patients that Dr. Owen used brain scans to investigate actually have healthy brains. For example, Dr. Owen scanned a woman’s brain who was in a vegetative state while she imagined playing tennis and walking through her home under Dr. Owen’s instructions. He discovered that it had the same activity as healthy people’s. Owen’s research using neuroimaging proved that some patients in a vegetative state are conscious (Vasquez 33). Beyond the surface, there are things that we do not know about. We do …show more content…
But is there really magic? No. Magicians trick the brain and the eyes into thinking that something “magical” is happening. According to “Magic and the Brain” by Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik, cognitive and visual illusions were used by magicians to fool the audience. Using misdirection to fool the human brain, magicians draw the audience’s attention away from the secret of the magic and to the outcome (Martinez-Conde and Macknik 82). The audience will be completely unaware of how magic tricks work in this way. The magician “controls awareness precisely and in real time” (Martinez-Conde and Macknik 84). When we see a magic show, we believe that the magician have some special powers. In reality, the magician manipulates and tricks the brain into thinking that there is magic going
We see patients in a vegetative state as unconscious. They do not speak or respond to sounds, hunger, or pain. They are basically brain dead, right? This is not true. The article “Saving the Lost” by Reynaldo Vasquez explained that many of the patients that Dr. Owen used brain scans to investigate actually have healthy brains. For example, Dr. Owen scanned a woman’s brain who was in a vegetative state while she imagined playing tennis and walking through her home under Dr. Owen’s instructions. He discovered that it had the same activity as healthy people’s. Owen’s research using neuroimaging proved that some patients in a vegetative state are conscious (Vasquez 33). Beyond the surface, there are things that we do not know about. We do …show more content…
But is there really magic? No. Magicians trick the brain and the eyes into thinking that something “magical” is happening. According to “Magic and the Brain” by Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik, cognitive and visual illusions were used by magicians to fool the audience. Using misdirection to fool the human brain, magicians draw the audience’s attention away from the secret of the magic and to the outcome (Martinez-Conde and Macknik 82). The audience will be completely unaware of how magic tricks work in this way. The magician “controls awareness precisely and in real time” (Martinez-Conde and Macknik 84). When we see a magic show, we believe that the magician have some special powers. In reality, the magician manipulates and tricks the brain into thinking that there is magic going