Perception

Jaeger, T., & Long, S. (2007). Effects Of Contour Proximity And Lightness On Delboeuf Illusions Created By Circumscribed Letters. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 105(5), 253. doi:10.2466/pms.105.5.253-260 Jaegar and Long conducted a study on how having large surrounding circles and reducing the lightness contrast of the outer ring can decrease the effects of the Delboeuf and circumscribed letters illusions. For their experiment, researchers printed out illusion figures, which had circles that had…

has been a simulation. Someone can come along to your brain in a vat and intervene with your memories and beliefs, but not the world or simulation that your brain is suspended within. This demon can interfere with mostly complex concepts and your perception of them, but left intact the way you sense reality and very general claims concerning them, like if gravity exists or not, that would remain…

It is in his case that one can begin to understand the dynamics of a truly free thinking and intellectual being. Nozick’s capability not only seems to complete his perception of the functional world, but also allows him to analyze and discern pertinent information as beneficial, or counterproductive to future progress. In the opening pages of the novel, Nozick states, “the fundamental question of political philosophy…

“It 's not the load that breaks you down, it 's the way you carry it.”- Lou Holtz I really connected to the motivation and communication articles for this session. I connected with the motivation articles in context of my experiences at work and the communications articles, in particular the Weeks’ excerpt, in regards to my own personal tendencies. I noticed a lot of things while reading these articles and observing the events taking place around me. I really started to think about how these…

The world we live in is like a constant bicycle wheel that never stops. We as, human beings are always on the go and has not come to recognize what our world can offer, right in our backyards. We live in a fast paced society, that we don 't usually have time to cook. Therefore, we are slowly killing our own ability to know how to cook. Thereby as consumers, we buy food that are convenient for us . In fact, we don 't really sit down and actually enjoy our food but instead eat food as if we are in…

On Rene Descartes text on Meditations on First Philosophy, he states that he has found himself going back on matters that he thought he believed to be true, and is now deciding to rebuild his knowledge from the ground up, and accepting as true only those claims which are absolutely certain. All he had previously thought he knew came to him through the senses. Through a process of methodological doubt, he no longer agrees with the process of declaring truth and knowledge through senses. At any…

Ron Carlson’s short stories, Bigfoot Stole My Wife and I am Bigfoot, provide two different perspectives of a situation, in which readers can try to differentiate the truth from reality. The statement given describes that not every truth told is what actually happened, instead it is subjective to a person’s opinion of what is occurring and what they choose to believe. Reality on the other hand is objective, where it is not impartial to one side, separating what is created from imagination and…

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…

Lies which in turn are the evils of reality. “Ignorance is bliss” because to the observers reality is blissful and good. Yet as shown it is evil merely masking itself in form and shadows much like the allegory of the cave. The perception of the experiencer is molded by senses, manipulated by the masses, and controlled by their own human instinct to survive. It has become an endless cycle of evil shadows and forms which force the good in reality out and reinforce the lies and trickery…

In Michael Huemer’s essay, “The Lure of Radical Skepticism,” he expands on the idea that ‘we cannot know anything,’ by outlining four different arguments supporting the claim. (Huemer 47-57) René Descartes holds the opposite opinion, which he discusses in ‘Meditations One and Two.’ While there is validity to both sides of the argument, Huemer’s essay proves to be more reliable after dissecting Descartes’ concepts of existence. Huemer proposes that no one can know anything about the external…