Depth perception

Perception is not the same as sensation. Sensation is transformation of energy from external stimuli into neural signals within our bodies (Schacter, Gilbert, Nock, & Wegner, 2016). Because the energies of the external stimuli are intrinsic properties of the stimuli themselves, different people have more or less the same “sensory” response. However, perception is the interpretation of these sensory neural signals and imbues sensation with meaning. Oftentimes, perception can be prone to…

In Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely discusses the “hidden forces that shape our decisions”. He looks deeply into how and why people make irrational decisions, but he also explains how we can improve our decision-making to act more rationally. This irrational behavior is consistent enough across populations to where it can be argued that people do not always act rationally. For some reason, we fall victim to anchoring, we cannot properly evaluate the concept of zero, and we always need to…

Blinks In the book Blink, Gladwell describes a phenomenon he refers to as “blinks”. These are instances where your unconscious takes in information and processes it, so you react to the situation without having to take the time to consciously think. Throughout his book Gladwell provides a variety of situations where these are helpful or harmful, however he does not touch on how this process occurs or how it relates to attention. While we still are not sure exactly how attention selection works,…

Opinions are the beliefs of people based on their knowledge, views, and preconceived notions about a subject. For every opinion there is another contradicting view, which leads most people to create doubt as to whether their beliefs are true. It is difficult for people to ignore a crowd of voices which repeat the same thing, so they doubt their own way of thinking. The human mind tends to always believe what others have to say and go along with the crowd as a desperate attempt to feel special…

Descartes has many arguments for mind body dualism one being that when a piece of the body is separated he knows for sure that his mind is still fully intact and has not been separated and supports this notion differentiating parts of the mind willing, conceiving and perceiving are unexpended and indivisible. And extend corporeal objects are divisible and unthinking. This example is used to separate them by category, one element is metaphysical and the other is tangible and has matter.…

is well depicted in Plato’s Symposium: “Ladder of Love”. He refers to both the physical and the metaphysical characteristics of the body to claim his perception of the relationship between Love and beauty and body and soul. In “Ladder of Love,” Plato, through Diotima, discreetly shares the steps of the ladder to properly acquire the true perception of beauty. Each rung of the ladder, he claims, has its particular significance. To defend his claim, he reasons that in order to ascend to the next…

connection amid the body and the mind. He indicated that stimuli had a subsequent effect on sensation. His discovery of the two point threshold and the just noticeable difference; demonstrates the significance of the bodies connection to the mind’s perception. Together, these measures reveal the inception of a psychological effect produced by a stimulus. This is the essence of Desecrates’ two way street of mind and…

Hylas and Philonous have a debate over the existence of physical matter. Berkley challenged the popular idea that the world around us was made up of physical matter and presented the question, can the objects we perceive exist independently of our perception of them? Philonous through a series of proofs provides the necessary evidence to disprove the existence of objects. The idea of objects is unfathomable and erroneous. Philonous begins his argument by stating that anything that is perceived…

As a reader you want to read for a purpose. Reading requires thinking about what the author is trying to relay to you and what you can learn from the text. As a skilled reader you do not read blindly. You have a goal or an objective when reading. The purpose of why someone is reading will determine how they will read. When reading we are trying to translate what the author has written into the original meaning using our own ideas to aid us. To read for pleasure the reader is not stuck on fully…

Composer CJ Lee included inductive reasoning in his article, by involving this most recent issue and drawing a conclusion. In terms of the removal of the Confederate flag, many perceptions of racism have been linked with this particular flag. For many decades, throughout our American history the Confederate flag has been known as the “flag of segregation.” This came upon during the time of the Civil War, than merging into the Civil…