Philosophy of perception

many notable writers such as Plato and Bacon provided their own views on the source of knowledge. In his short story the “Allegory of the cave”, Plato claims that by identifying our identities and breaking through the barriers created by our false perception, we will be able to access that source of true knowledge buried deep inside our minds. To illustrate this point, Plato uses metaphors, similes, and direct comparisons to establish relevance to the reader and life to the text. Likewise, Bacon…

Computers and Craniums: A Continuing Cycle of Connections The enigma of the human mind is a puzzle that has fascinated many great scientists. From the earliest musings of the ancient philosophers to the advanced neuroscience research going on today, many intelligent people have worked to understand what is going on in our own heads. In an interesting phenomenon, our understanding of the mind is intimately linked to the technology that is used to study it, and the new findings that arise feed…

Although society as a whole has made some progress from when autism was first discovered in the 1940’s, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is still very much stigmatized in the 21st century. The social stigma of ASD is complicated, and varies depending on what country is in question, but scientists and parents all agree that the diagnosis and label of autism does invite stigma, prejudice, and the loss of the feeling of normalcy. According to Martin (2013), prominent features of ASD include…

shares leading to a creation of “sequel” to the advertisement the following year. Their usage of different gender and age groups reflected on the potentially disastrous effects of the narrative on not only their self-confidence and worth but their perception by others (primarily males) as well as the inhibiting their true potential. These arguments were portrayed incredibly through these rhetorical devices arguing against the malicious turn of phrase. Whether consciously or not we have all…

believe that individual, active perception, as well as passive reception, both have to work together to create a sense. This conclusion brings me to my next objection. If all there is to sensing is the reception of particles’ shape, velocity, and number as Galilei thinks there is, then why is it that one person can think an apple is delicious while another person eating the same apple…

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…

factors (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014). In this family’s interview, I completed nursing assessment by using values/ health perception, nutrition, sleep/rest, elimination, activity/exercise, cognitive, sensory-perception, self-perception, role relationship, sexuality, coping patterns to assess the Sobolew’s family. Health perception and values are focus on family’s perception of health, health management, and preventive practices (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014). In Sobolew’s family, religion…

Who am I? A question that would made you think well and might puzzle you out. Describing yourself is harder than describing someone because there are some areas in you that you are not certain of such as characteristics, personalities, and attitude. Also, there are things that other people would notice while we can’t because those things are the things we do that we are not conscious about. Talking about myself, I am Noreen Joyce F. Panganiban, a 16 year-old girl turning 17 this March 2016, from…

According to Althusser, ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. This does not imply that ideology is a false idea of reality but rather a false idea of what our imagination creates. Due to our false conceptions, our illusions produce allusions to reality and “they need to be interpreted to discover the reality of the world behind their imaginary representation of that world.” Althusser claims that ideology is not the way individuals…

Dreams Are Our Reality Are our dreams a reality, or is our reality a dream ? We take for granted how our mind puts everything together. Certain dreams are a message to what could happen in reality. What we envision in our dreams is something everyone needs to treasure, so the world’s population has to know about the beauty of our mind’s dreams! Dreams are an extension to physical reality because they are powerful, have deep meanings that relates to real life, and cause certain events such as…