Are Our Senses Reliable?

ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to defend a broad concept of visual perception, according to which it is a sufficient condition for visual perception that subjects receive visual information in a way which enables them to give reliably correct answers about the objects presented to them. According to this view, blindsight, non-epistemic seeing, and conscious visual experience count as proper types of visual perception. This leads to two consequences concerning the role of the phenomenal qualities of visual experiences. First, phenomenal qualities are not necessary in order to see something, because in the case of blindsight, subjects can see objects without experiences phenomenal

I decided to take the Confused Words Quiz. What were the results? Well, I scored 13 correct out of 20. Not great, but to be honest not as bad as I thought I would do. Mainly because when you attach the word “quiz” to anything I must do I go into immediate panic mode. Somewhere in my mind quiz, exam, test = opportunity for failure and I am just not comfortable with that. I guess that then equals something I am just going to have to deal with.

Sense perception is a way to gain information by using our sense: touch, feel, taste, see, hear, and smell, it is a way of knowing. When it comes to ways of knowing, like sense perception, it is questionable whether or not it affects us in a positive or negative way. It can be argued if it is leading us in the wrong direction. If you see it, do you believe it?

Our vision is perceived to be our most trusted sense, as the old saying goes ?seeing is believing? thus

* Whenever you touch something hot or cold, the sense of touch & feelings detects it & sends a message to brain and in response you act and remove your hand from that hot or cold material

Three reasons for believing in the accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information is perception, interpretation, and knowledge. Perception is our sensory experience of the world around us and involves both the recognition of environmental stimuli and actions in response to these stimuli (Bagley, 2004). Through the perceptual process, we gain information about properties and elements of the environment that are critical to our survival. Perception not only creates our experience of the world around us, and it also allows us to act within our environment. Interpretation is a communication process, designed to reveal meanings, and relationships of our cultural and natural heritage, through involvement with objects, artifacts, landscapes and

A few days later, I am handed back the test. Per Ms. Evans’ usual policy, there is no grade, just an assortment of checks and X’s. My eyes zoom in to find my mistakes, sure that I had approached every question from the entirely wrong angle. The more I examine it, however, the more I can tell that I actually only made a few small mistakes. Nicholas Chan, next to me, remarks “Wow, you actually did pretty well!”, the surprise in his voice unmistakable. For some reason though, the trepidation and dread do not leave my stomach. I ask myself,

I believe many of us agree that this is a tricky test. In fact, I did very poorly in this activity, my score is 0 out of 10 for this quiz. The process of checking answer of was horrible to me. I was surprised that all the answers are unknown.

Perception is the process of individuals interpreting their impressions to give meaning to their environment. The concept of perceptual errors is how a person’s behavior is based on their perception of what reality is, not on reality itself. Perception is the process by which an individual selects, organizes, and interprets information inputs to create a meaningful picture of the world. The attribution process guides our behaviour, regardless of the truth of the attribution.

Since humans evolved, we’ve relied on our senses to guide us and help us survive, for without them, we’d have gone extinct a long time ago. Our sight lets us view the world around, allowing us not only to spot danger, but also to explore, and discover new places and objects, whilst our hearing allows us, for example, to survey our surrounding more efficiently. We’ve always needed our senses to survive, so much so that the idea of them being untrustworthy is a worrying thought, but is it possible for this to happen, and can our senses be deceived?

through our senses is actually an accurate interpretation of reality. After we’ve established that our senses aren’t