Perception has played an immense role in shaping what it means to be human. Our ability to perceive has given humans the ability to cognate at a higher level than any other animal and has given us the evolutionary advantage needed to progress our species. However, as technology has advanced and caught up to humans in the ability to think, it presses us to think of another dividing line that makes us into humans and leaves technology behind as just robots. This line is our ability to react emotionally to what we perceive. We are able to feel, which is the ability to have an emotional response to the environment we are perceiving. Any robot can now interpret its environment and make adjustments based on what the input was, but while doing this, robots are not able to sense what they are perceiving. In Sherry Turkle’s "Selections from Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other", she discusses what it takes for a computer to be close enough to be alive, and brings up the question of what is missing to make them the same as humans. Oliver Sacks also brings up interesting stories of how people’s experiences can bring them to question what it means to be alive, in his story “The Mind’s Eye”. Also in Ethan Watters’ “The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan”, he brings up that going through tumultuous emotions associated with things such as suffering, love, and death are what it means to be human. While the ability to perceive is not a unique
Have you ever thought you heard something, but there was nothing there? Have you ever thought you saw someone in the corner of your eye, and when you looked there was no person there? When we look down from a high building on people, do they appear small like ants? Aren't there thousands of occasions when we do misperceive? What is reality and perception? Mainstream science describes reality as "the state of things as they actually exist". So reality is simply: everything we observe. Perception is the process by which organisms interpret and organize sensation to produce a meaningful experience of the world (sapdesignguild.org np). I believe people should base some decisions
Perception checking is a cooperative approach to communication that provides accuracy instead of assuming our first interpretation is correct. It minimizes defensiveness through face saving and requires both nonverbal and verbal elements to match. The benefits of perception checking is to help us have a better understanding of a message, so both persons can mutually relate and to reduce conflict so we don 't jump to conclusions. In the perception process reality is constructed in two ways. The first order realities is physically observable qualities of a thing or situation. For example, if your friend calls you a “bone head”. On the other hand, second order realities cannot reside in objects or events but rather in our minds. It involves our attaching meaning to first order things or situations. For instance, your friend is being critical is an example of second order realities. Perception checking has three parts: description, interpretation, and clarification. Description is describing a behavior that was noticed. Interpretation is providing interpretations of the behavior, Lastly, ask for clarification from the person about the behavior and interpretations. These three parts are important because they help an individual how to prevent assuming something that is probably not the intention of the other person which is why clarification is needed in a situation like this. It is better to gather more information about the situation then to think the
The World of Perception is a book that relates how individuals distinguish the world in association to the self, others, and society. Written by Merleau Ponty, the World of Perception contradicts the classic understandings of society and engages the various abstractions of the world. Perception shows how people observe the world and what is within it. Perception is how one may sense one thing in the world, while another person may sense something else. Perception is an important concept because it is the basis of how humans view themselves and the world around them. For self-understanding, human understanding, and the understanding of society, perception plays a key role in how one understands the world. In the film Wild, originally a
Human beings perceive everything within their realities through the five basic senses of taste, touch, hearing, sight, and smell. If someone was to talk to you, you have to be able to understand their body language toward you. For example, you can feel when texting someone that they do not want to talk to you. You must touch things to get them and hold them, smell things with your nose. In order, to know if you like something you must taste it.
People of different cultures and beliefs have different perceptions of the world and of others. Perception is a concept that is as complicated as the human mind, it is biased, it is always subjective, and never objective (McDonald, 2012). Perception is influenced by life experiences that creates a lens in which one views the world through (McDonald, 2012).
To know how perception interacts with the brain to create reality we first have to better understand perception. Perception is the active process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting the information brought to the brain by the senses. Perception is an important part of creating reality because, your reality is determined by your memories, beliefs, culture, life experiences, as well as your senses and perception. Although sensation and perception work together to help create our reality they are two very different things. Sensation is the physical observation of an object using one of the five senses. Perception is what interprets the sense and understands the meaning. Perception gives us the ability to make sense out of the sensations. For instance, seeing the light (sensation) is different from determining its color (perception). Another example is that feeling the coldness of the environment is different from perceiving that winter is coming. Also, hearing a sound is different from perceiving the music being played. Our senses and perception work together for us to be able to identify and create meaning from information, and play an important role in creating our reality.
From ancient philosophers to modern day free thinkers, the existence of an absolute and concrete reality has been infinitely questioned. The idea that either all people experience the same reality or all people experience a different one is an intriguing topic that people can not seem to be able to wrap their minds around. There is no way to prove without a shadow of a doubt that one of these perspectives is more valid than the other, but it can be shown that, if there were a common reality, each individual would perceive it differently thereby proving that no two people can truly experience the exactly same reality. This can be explained through examining the way that individuals perceive reality based on the social factors that affect them and their mental state.
Imagine you are walking down the street; it is a beautiful, breezy day. You stop for a moment, you notice a tree. For some reason you find this tree to be very alluring. You can’t help but stare as you attempt to capture this moment. You notice the way the light dances through the branches, the way the breeze catches each leaf, sending them into a blissful dance. The limbs move so freely throughout the crisp air. This expression of pure freedom and bliss etched upon the face of nature. It captivates you. Since the very moment that this tree captured your attention, perception has been at work. Perception has allowed for you to interpret this one particular occurrence and, in turn, experience life. The process of perception helps us to experience the world at large. It is our perceptions that make up our conscious experience and make it possible for us to interact with the people and objects that surround us.
The use of visual perception is very important in our everyday lives. Male and female undergraduates at the University of New Orleans were tested in their abilities to distinguish the differences in 3 minutes within an allotted time. We found that gender difference sin the task were of low significance.
On the continuum of perception, I tend toward Intuition. There are both positives and negatives to this preference. On the positive side, my intuition can go a long way toward perceiving the needs of others and helping to create a positive working environment for my employees. On the negative side, however, my preference for intuition rather than sensing the world around me plays into one of my perceived weaknesses, which is that, since I am a fairly mild-mannered and non-aggressive person, people could perceive me, in turn, as weak or someone who can be walked over. The reality is that I have a strong personality and I work to be diplomatic in the face of adversity, which my supervisors continually note is an area of strength. This lends itself well to my current leadership style, which is a blend of democratic, synergistic, and servant leader. I like to put the onus of responsibility on my employees such that they can buy into the work that they are doing. A part of this is creating a team atmosphere, even against my own personal preferences, to make sure there is a diverse talent pool addressing each constituency and issue. Finally, as a servant leader, it is my duty to create an environment for my employees’ success that fosters their growth.
Perception can be understood on the model of change. Aristotle started off by stating the explanation of perception as a physical-chemical process by atomist philosophers at that time ‘like is affect by like’ alleging that chemical elements in us meets the like elements in the things we perceive. If we do have the same elements inside our sense organs, it is then questioned as to why the sense-organs do not perceive themselves i.e. why doesn 't the eye see itself or why do part of the eye not see the other parts of the eye; why do they not produce perception without an external object? Aristotle then implant his explanation - that senses themselves are potentials and it is to be activated with something actual. With the example of wood as a fuel having a potential to be a fire but will not become so until something external “activates it” and burns it. The same way as man having the potential to sense but can only do so when something external makes them active. The activation process turns potentiality into actuality. To be affected or to be moved requires something active, like the wood example. Activity, the fullest kind of actuality, brings about this change. This change is then explained with the “like/unlike” theory. A thing can only be changed by a thing that’s unlike itself “for it is the unlike which is affected”. For example, a red cloth cannot be changed by a red dye; a drink of the room temperature cannot be heated nor cooled by the temperature of the room -
Visual perception and visual sensation are both interactive processes, although there is a significant difference between the two processes. Sensation is defined as the stimulation of sense organs Visual sensation is a physiological process which means that it is the same for everyone. We absorb energy such as electro magnetic energy (light) or sound waves by sensory organs such as eyes. This energy is then transduced into electro chemical energy by the cones and rods (receptor cells) in the retina. There are four main stages of sensation. Sensation involves detection of stimuli incoming from the surrounding world, registering of the stimulus by the receptor cells, transduction or changing of the stimulus energy to an electric nerve
To James and Lippmann, the stimuli world is a buzzing confusion that bombards the perceiver. From Shakespeare and Socrates to Kant and Kohler, the power of perception has been discussed by philosophers and psychologists alike. Construction of perception and knowing is subjective, depending on factors such as motives, wants, needs, values, cultures, norms, and mood. Meaning is constructed to end doubt, prepare for action, and obtain sub-jective feelings of control. In the social world, inferences and categorization happen at an unconscious level. However, we have the cognitive flexibility to engage in effor
Countless data pass through our minds every single moment. Consider about height, colour, size and even message from actual language or body language, those are information we perceive everyday as usual. Perception is a very important process for human beings because it is a process that allow us to experience any data around us such as smell, touch, taste, temperature and so on. (Otara, 2011) As we perceive things, we collect data, we analyse it and interpret data in our minds in order to give the reaction back. However, sometimes we might face some situation that we think we already have a conclusion or outcome to some cases or some particular situations in our mind without receiving all of the information first. This cognitive process is called ‘bias’ which means the process of using shortcut to see the outcome based on personal preferences without using all of information. This is not unfamiliar process to human beings because this process used to help us in order to survive through many eras. (Ross, 2011) For instance, you see a black shadow diving to your head so, you duck your head to avoid it. After that, you see that it’s just a bird. (Ross, 2008) Before you duck your head, you didn’t look at it well enough that means you didn’t use all of information before react to the situation also you might face with these experiences before so you know it is safe to avoid at first. However, your bias is still useful because what if it’s not a bird but a heavy object? You could
Imagine you are watching a group of Hawaiian women dancing to soft and filling ukulele music. Your Hawaiian friend, watching with you, exclaimed, “What a beautiful story!” You keep staring but neither see nor hear any story. You merely hear a pleasant melody and see some women waving their arms and wiggling. As your friend explains the meaning of each dance movements you begin to recognize a charming story about the wind.