A Brief Synopses/ Introduction
In the Ted Talks video Optical Illusion, Beau Lotto started his presentation with a game of two panels (a white panel and a black panel) containing colored dots. By engaging the audience to identify the colors that where exactly the same on both panels, he explained that the purpose of the game was for the audience to see the world as it is. Next, Beau Lotto describes why color is important and how we use color to make sense of sensory information. First, he uses the black and white jungle scene versus the colored jungle scene to portray color perception. In particular, he outlines how individuals are unable to see a predator in a black and white jungle scene because they view the surfaces according to the amount of light that it reflects as opposed viewing a surface according to the quality of light that they reflect where we can clearly see the predator. Consequently, Lotto declares that “what you 've just done is, in many respects, mathematically impossible. Why? Because, as Berkeley tells us, we have no direct access to our physical world, other than through our senses” Lotto, B. (2009, July). He further proclaims that “the light that falls onto our eyes is determined by multiple things in the world -- not only the color of objects, but also the color of …show more content…
He illustrates our complex perception of motion with the spinning diamond object, he demonstrates that we can see the spinning motion in two direction therefore we might be confuse on what direction it was spinning Lotto, B. (2009, July). The text complies this through its example of how we perceive motion “we can be fooled to see motion that is not there” (Lilienfield et al., 2015, pg. 147). On the whole, we find it hard to relate the direction of spinning objects due to our complex perception of emotions which in like respect is similar to our perception of
In the Ted Talks video Optical Illusion, Beau Lotto started his presentation with a game of two panels (a white panel and a black panel) containing colored dots. By engaging the audience to identify the colors that where exactly the same on both panels, he explained that the purpose of the game was for the audience to see the world as it is. Next, Beau Lotto describes why color is important and how we use color to make sense of sensory information. First, he uses the black and white jungle scene versus the colored jungle scene to portray color perception. In particular, he outlines how individuals are unable to see a predator in a black and white jungle scene because they view the surfaces according to the amount of light that it reflects as opposed viewing a surface according to the quality of light that they reflect where we can clearly see the predator. Consequently, Lotto declares that “what you 've just done is, in many respects, mathematically impossible. Why? Because, as Berkeley tells us, we have no direct access to our physical world, other than through our senses” Lotto, B. (2009, July). He further proclaims that “the light that falls onto our eyes is determined by multiple things in the world -- not only the color of objects, but also the color of …show more content…
He illustrates our complex perception of motion with the spinning diamond object, he demonstrates that we can see the spinning motion in two direction therefore we might be confuse on what direction it was spinning Lotto, B. (2009, July). The text complies this through its example of how we perceive motion “we can be fooled to see motion that is not there” (Lilienfield et al., 2015, pg. 147). On the whole, we find it hard to relate the direction of spinning objects due to our complex perception of emotions which in like respect is similar to our perception of