Philosophy of perception

imagination, immediately you may think of unicorns, rainbows, and other fantasies that do not have any real physical realities. In Season 3, Episode 4b of the popular children’s cartoon SpongeBob Squarepants, the main character SpongeBob gives his own philosophy on imagination. He receives a cardboard box in the mail, and turns it into a “box of imagination”, in which he and his companion, Patrick Star, have different adventures inside the box, such as climbing a mountain, so realistic…

René Descartes was a modern philosopher and was dualist. He wrote The Mediations of First Philosophy in 1641. In his arguments he expresses his believes of two substances, which are Res Cogitans and Res Extensa. He will also, give you arguments about how he concluded that god existed, and will use god in his argument to show how it is possible for corporeal things to exist, as well as introduce you the mind and body problem. Descartes will at one-point doubt everything, even his existence, which…

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, one the precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state at all. Why…

Descartes, Plato, and The Matrix: A Comparison The Matrix, The Republic, and Meditations on First Philosophy all provide some valuable food for thought on the issues of reality and what we think we know to be true. Through their similarities and differences, we can explore some interesting perspectives on the age-old questions of “what can we know for sure if anything?” and “how do we know what we know?” As they have been, these questions will likely continue to be debated and explored for…

There is incongruence between his wanting to avoid rejection and criticism through isolation and the perception that the same avoidance is exacerbating his experience of depression. It is evident that Ted enjoys being social, however, perceived negative experiences diminishes his self-worth. His depression contributes to his lack of well-being in that it…

Memento Time Warp Throughout Memento, the shifting between multiple point of views, shapes and drastically changes our perception of Leonard, Natalie and Teddy. There are two types of scenes in Memento. There are the black and white scenes, which are shown in chronological order and the color scenes which are shown in reverse order, eventually meet up chronologically with the black and white scenes. The black and white scenes are objective, the audience and Leonard can see all the facts and they…

sensory perception, along with imagination, are modes of the mind. They are not fundamental to him, such that he can conceive of himself without them, but he could not conceive sensory perception and imagination without a mind to contain them. A mind, with intellectual substance, is essential to sensory perception and imagination in the same way that a mode of an extension needs an extension to exist. Thus, sensory perception occurs in the mind. In the scenario, there is a sensory perception…

one Mr. Hubbard used, that try to produce truth using empirical ways. How reliable were the studies? It is known to humans that our sense perception is unreliable because our senses trick us into seeing and hearing things that are not real. Optical illusions can show how our eyes are lying to us. I have first-hand experiences about unreliable sense perceptions every single day. Ever since I can remember, I was diagnosed with hearing impairments in both of my ears. What I hear is not the…

Moving on to Descartes, who I see as the earliest skeptic that had revealed the ideas he had of doubt. Seen as the “Father of Modern Philosophy”, he had found him self doubting certain ideas and chose to question them accordingly. To him, “we cannot trust any of our beliefs as long as there is any chance that they might be mistaken”. Throughout there are three subjects that ha been mentioned in Meditation 1: The Senses- level 1, Dreaming- level 2, and The Deceiving God- level 3. Starting with…

the challenge to think of innovative ways within their design incorporating our sensory perception whilst maintaining the…