Face perception

René Descartes was a French philosopher, well known for his Mediations on First Philosophy. In the Mediations on First Philosophy, his main goal in the mediation is find certainty. He tries to determine the meaning of knowledge and what we really know. His method of solving this is simply focusing on a specific target and if he is capable of finding a possible way to doubt it, it is automatically rejected. The first mediation focuses on his methodology in trying to define knowledge through the…

Elizabeth Fernandez Professor Richardson General Biology 2 Lab Section 01 March 27, 2017 Comparative Sensory Physiology Lab Introduction: All animals have specialized receptor cells that are sensitive to certain inputs like sound, light and chemicals. When these receptor cells are stimulated a nerve impulse is sent across the body and into the central nervous system where the signal is perceived as one of the animals senses (taste, hearing, sight, smell, equilibrium, etc.). There are three…

discovery, may provoke profound re-evaluations challenging personal perceptions, and beliefs. Robert Frost', poem “A Tuft of Flowers,” engages with feelings of isolation, whereby nature catalyses a new outlook on ourselves and the world by challenging our previously held assumptions. The ramifications of discovering mortality and the limitations of life are also explored in the poem “After Apple picking,” influencing our perceptions of our place in the world surrounding us. Similarly Hattie…

In John Dewey's essay Truth and Consequences, he criticizes and reevaluates the traditionally held belief that a true proposition should contain a reference to that which is true about itself. For Dewey, truth should not make a reference to what is ‘really’ perceived, because that is already implied when speaking about anything. Instead, truth is supposed to be thought of as that which will fulfill the requirements of future problem solving activity. In Section one, I will summarize Dewey’s…

downward and rippled the colorful, circular sheet in front of us. The sheet wrestled with the hot, stagnant air and produced bursts of wind that bounced off the walls of my elementary school gym. Looking around, twenty-six six year old faces blurred together. The grinning faces morphed together to form a fleshy, monochrome background contrasting to what I was concentrated on. The parachute. Along with the vibrant colors, it struck me as odd. The circle was cut and seamed in a random array of…

Cognitive biases are irrational patterns that occur in our thought processing. At the surface, they only seem to misconstrue our perception of reality and hinder our ability to reach a logical conclusion when faced with a problem or situation. However, through further research and investigations, psychologists have discovered that this apparent flaw in our minds has been a necessary part of our evolution. These biases help us make sense of the vast, complex world around us by simplifying the…

In all the myths, it’s obvious see that there are always some figures superior to other mortals. In the Bible, the followers of Christ possessed eternal endurance and were capable of various wonders. As for Jesus, he is the son of God, and his wisdom and kindness were beyond others’ reach. While in the stories of Greek Myths, gods chose whatever they like. Take Apollo as one example. As the god of music and the lyre, he was attracted by the beauty of Daphne, the daughter of the River God,…

Compare and contrast The Matrix with the readings from Plato and Descartes. What are some similarities and differences? The biggest similarity among The Matrix, Descartes’ musings and Plato’s cave analogy is that all three of these works doubt the reality of the world around us and raise the question of whether the reality we experience through our senses in tangible and objective, or is it just an illusion we create. The Matrix is the story about Neo who is thrown into this computer…

In Robots and Minds, William Lycan tries to show that it is feasible that robots can have the same kind of mind that humans do, under the condition that machines are able to have consciousness just like humans. He further expounds this theory by introducing AI, claiming that researchers have already designed machines that can do human-functioning activities (such as reading books, playing chess, etc.) Lycan concludes that all of these actions are considered to be intelligent behavior in human…

Kant argued that all cannot account for our experience of beauty itself, as the tendency is always to see ‘beauty’ as if it were somehow in the object or the immediate experience of the object. He also argued that such a relativist view cannot account for the social ‘behavior’ of our clams about what we find beautiful. Kant introduced the idea of ‘free play’ of the cognitive faculties (understanding and imagination) to explore the implications of ‘apart from a concept’. He then related the…