Roberto Bolano: Is Seeing Really Believing?

Tom experiences this illusion, but he is not deceived by it because he recognizes the difference between paper and everything that is not paper, even though everything has been carefully crafted to fool him. Bouwsma's point of this is to use Tom's recognition of the difference between a flower made out of paper and a real flower, and consequently his recognition that everything but paper had changed its nature, to introduce his idea that people have a solidly formed concept of what things are, that a flower is a flower, and not paper.

Visual illusions is the most common regarding UFO’s sightings because what the person might be seeing can just be a visual illusion and not an actual UFO. This plays a huge role in UFO sightings because most UFO sightings are seen from very far away, making it possible that what most people are seeing is the strong effect of a visual illusion in the sky. For instance, an illusion known as the airplane illusion states that familiar size determines the apparent size and distance of the plane or in this case an object in the sky ( Hershenson & Samuels, 1999). For example, the fact that we are familiar with a plane and expect it to be a certain size and certain speed affects how we perceive the size and speed of the objects in the sky. Therefor, this may affect how we see lights or other objects such as a balloon that seem far away and moving either fast or slow in the

In life, what we perceive tends to show misconception in how the thought plays out. A good example would be the character Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American classic: The Great Gatsby. Gatsby was unable to distinguish between his love for Daisy, a reality, versus the illusion that he could recapture her love by establishing and inventing a fraudulent past. He believed he could repeat the past, and acquire a flaunting wealth. In the novel, Jay Gatsby seems incompetent in establishing a difference between the realities of his life versus the illusion he made out.

C. Illusions, are simple perceptions, which although produced by an external stimulus are misinterpreted by the client. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a perception that does not tally with the physical measurement of the stimulus source.

According to Academic Skepticism theres a flaw in our very basic sense of understanding and observing the univere.They said that our senses of vision ,touch cannot be trusted completely .For eg if we are hearing to a voice (familiar)are we sure that its of friend ,it is possible that he

People try to understand the world through perception of experiences that they encounter. These encounters include either living through the experience first hand or the experience being conveyed by another person. Our perception weeds out main ideas from those experiences deeming them realistic and if so labels them truths. However, our perception of the obtained truth from those experiences is not always credible because as a recipient we are restricted to the amount of experience we can retain. Meaning the perceptions of the labeled truths is a result of our translation of incomplete experiences into new perception resulting from what he or she could retain from the original experience. Those incomplete experiences give rise to new

All the qualities of this art work create the effect that Diego Velazquez is trying to accomplish through the viewer. Velazquez also portrays himself working at a large canvas in his art work. This is also the effect he wanted to accomplish to the viewer. The effect of illusion is that he is watching you, in return to you watching him in his art work.

In Peter Elbow’s essay “The Doubting Game and Believing Game” he discusses the two types of games that an individual can use to look for the truth in a situation. The Doubting game, is when an individual believes everything is false, and prove each assertion wrong, and the Believing game, is the process where an individual believes that all assertions are correct, and go over each one separately. With both games, there are certain rules that must be followed.

Whaley shows that “deception is the result of the target’s misperceptions” and “these misperceptions are the result of deliberate actions on the part of a deceiver”. Whaley explains that dissimulation (hiding the real) and simulation (showing the false) work together to create a successful deception (Bennett and Waltz, 2007). Dissimulation consists of: masking, repackaging, and dazzling. Simulation consists of: mimicking, inventing, and de-coying. According to Whaley, the most effective deceptions combine the strongest dissimulation meth-od (masking) with the strongest simulation

Most of us have heard the term “seeing is believing”, but in class we discussed that “believing is seeing”. When you already believe something and have an idea implanted in your memory it will alter what you think you are seeing. In class we observed many slides of different pictures portraying how believing is seeing. One specific example from the slide show was one image that contained two completely different pictures depending on how you looked at the picture. Before showing us the image for the first time the pervious slide stated “Cowboys Crossing the Creek”. When the image appeared you automatically saw cowboys on horses crossing a creek. Then we were shown a slide stating “Faces Everywhere”. This time when the same exact image was shown for the second time, you saw faces everywhere in the image. This is because you already had an idea placed in your mind causing you to see what you already believe.

​There is a lot of talk about illusion versus reality. Many people believe that we are all living in some sort of dream and that this is all an illusion and that we are not in a reality. In the two works Plato’s Allegory of the Cave by Jeff Stickney, and the movie The Truman Show by Peter Weir, both show the same concept of illusion versus reality through similarities and differences through the setting, the plot, and the display of characters.

The illusions she constructs focus on how they are percieved. In one peice she created a structure that never looks repeated and in another she takes a ‘cube’ and makes a form that looks competely different from what the oberserver would percieve as

believable or it is conceivable that it is false. This means that we can’t really know that anything we perceive

There are four different sources of knowledge: perception, introspection, reason and memory. All our knowledge roots from our perception. Perception is the way humans sense the world outside the body. We perceive through our five senses: see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. Humans gain knowledge through experiences and experience through perception. Usually we can trust our senses to perceive our surroundings effectively but there are times we misperceive. Illusions, hallucinations or impediments of the accurate flow of information to our senses are examples of misperceptions. For example if someone hits their head causing their vision to blur or impedes them from effectively processing what occurring around them, then they shouldn’t trust their senses. Another example would be an anxiety attack causing a signal of threat to the brain also preventing the person from correctly processing their surroundings. If nothing can prove we are misperceiving then we have good reason to be believe our senses.

“Reason is the illusion of reality.” A quote from Hazrat Inayan Khan, the founder of The Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism. People do accept reality but when they start to find a reason of their reality, illusion happens. The meaning of reality is the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. On the other hand, illusion is defined as a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses. There are a lot of reasons why people often go back and forth between the reality and illusion. When a person have an illusion, it does not simply means that he/she cannot accept the reality, however, it may be because the person wants to feel more about the reality.