Perception

Oculos Habent, et Non Videbunt: Sight, Perception and Interpretation in the Narrative of Troilus and Criseyde In his extended analysis of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Chauncey Wood notes that “Perhaps more than any other motif in the poem, the idea of blindness is the key to unlocking the tone of the work.” The poem continually foregrounds “eyen” as a malleable symbol that encompasses both physical and metaphorical sight and perception – and the absence of these faculties – in the narrator…

Looking Out From Within: An Analysis of "To Althea From Prison" Richard Lovelace was charming, handsome, and affluent. He embodied the disposition that any woman could fancy during his time, but outwardly that was all there was to him. If you were to ask around you would be told that he was well-off and distinguished and seemingly that was where his persona had stopped. So the question posed becomes, “why would a man so forgettable, be remembered for such a long period of time?” The works he…

• Berkeley is saying in this paragraph that all the world is made up of are ideas and that there are three different ways that you can get these ideas, one is the senses, another is the operations/passions of the mind and finally there is memory and imagination. • He also argues that a combination of ideas gives us objects such as apples or stones as some ideas always go together such as the colour and taste of the apple. • Berkeley then goes on the say that there has to be something to…

outside us can only be doubtfully true, but it must confirm our existence and manifest the nature of our mind. It is plausible to know he exists, he is a thinking thing, his mind is better known than his body, and that all clear and unmistakable perceptions come from intellect and not from sense or imagination (Meditation…

enough to answer some of these questions in part. I believe it is a predictor of how limited my knowledge in this area really is. After watching the Barkley video and despite all my training thus far, I realize now somewhat disappointedly, that my perceptions of individuals with ADHD might have been far more similar to that of the uneducated person. I have spent so much time and effort understanding autism that I failed to recognize the severity of ADHD. Although my question was a little…

For Christmas 1969, I received a 22- inch bicycle with training wheels that I named Starr. It was the only gift I received that Christmas because my family was struggling to stay financially afloat with a failing hardware store in a small Iowa town. I have no recollection of what my sister received that year as all of my eight-year-old attention was focused on that bike. My first mounting of Starr was easy; it was as if we had been born to ride together. She tilted slightly to the left as I…

Analysis In the following passage, Nagel argues physicalism to strengthen the idea of subjective character: While an account of the physical basis of mind must explain many things, this appears to be the most difficult. It is impossible to exclude the phenomenological features of experience from a reduction in the same way that one excludes the phenomenal features of an ordinary substance from a physical or chemical reduction of it---namely, by explaining them as effects on the mind of human…

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,…

In his article, A. Mark Smith explores area of perspectiva outside of the general idea of its physical process. Smith wanted to argue that perspectivist understand perspectiva as not just perceiving an object, but actually understanding it by using science. He supports this point by using the theory of “cognition by abstraction” to explain how a person comes to know something. Smith’s article outlines the theory of abstraction as a sensible way of thinking and uses the example of physical sight…

Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain often deals with the duality of perception and reality. This is shown the most through the struggle of the protagonist, Denny Swift, as the perception of who he is versus the reality of his character is greatly misrepresented. As this misrepresentation begins to take almost everything from him, his identity is substantially affected. This shift in identity is shown through Stein’s use of setting, point of view, and symbolism. To start off, setting is…