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? Have you ever looked at an illusion and been deceived that one line was longer than the other, but really it wasn't? When you look down from a high building on people, do they appear small like ants? Aren't there thousands of occasions when we do miss-perceive?
If we are wrong on some occasions, for example, from a height people look the size of ants, is it not possible that we are always deceived? Logical necessity requires the answer: Yes, to this question. It is possible that things as we perceive them are not that way at all!.
LOGICO-SCIENTIFIC PERCEPTION OF REALITY:.
If we are concerned with: .
The purpose of life .
What we should be doing on Earth .
The meaning of life and death .
Then the issue of reality and the true nature of our existence is crucial. If things are different from how they are presented to us conventionally, then this is very basic to our quest.
Let's say they do, and let's be scientific. How do you know something is really out there? .
We know things are there because: .
Light hits the retina of the eye .
And this changes the chemical composition of the eye Right? .
And this makes electricity travel along a nerve, the Optic Nerve .
And this goes to a part of the brain .
And then something happens and we see the thing .
That's what happens according to science .
According to science: .
We do not respond to the thing, but to electrical and chemical events in the brain.
So, do we really respond to a thing? Don't we respond only the electrical and chemical events that occur in the brain and nerves, and not to the alleged real object? Therefore, it is not things we are experiencing but chemical and electrical reactions. We don't see things directly. We see via chemical and electrical reactions in eyes, nerves and bits of brain.
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What is Virtual Reality? ... Virtual Reality existed long before it was classified as "virtual reality" in the way that the public now perceives it. ... After many successes, the field of medical virtual reality grew and grew. ... What is involved in medical virtual reality? ... Virtual reality is not a system by itself, however. ...
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In a sense of visual perception, everything perceived is an illusion since one can never exactly recreate objective reality through his/her senses (Rock, 1984). ... When ambiguities exist, the brain must solve the ambiguities in shape, orientation, light source, reflectance, shadow, size and distance. ... The most well known illusion of ambiguity is the Necker cube (Gregory, 1987, p339-400). ... Vision can take off from reality to create fictions. By which means that appearances one perceives images or objects which are actually not present in the scene (Gregory, 1973). ...
Escher, and only skim the surface of the amazing yet ambiguous depth and exactitude to his work. ... Understanding how humans perceive the arts and themselves is a difficult task to accomplish, as we are all unique individuals. Therefore there is an ambiguous perception to Escher's work; and inherent donning of ambiguous depth perception, a view of depth on many differing planes. ... It is for this reason that Escher's works often times have been labeled ambiguous. Ambiguous is simply having more than one meaning or way of looking at something. ...
Robinett talks about Virtual reality, a 3D video game that can be experienced by strapping a Head-Mounted Display to a human face. ... With all the possibilities that it offers, Virtual reality is highly more affective than any typical video game. The Head-Mounted Display might very well be as common as telephones in the future because it can help us perceive the real world when before it was impossible. ...
So, when we discuss James and his ideas on a pragmatic reality, we are focusing on the reality of physical objects. ... This process will result in an individuals own reality, and not any "absolute" reality. ... James" metaphysical conception of reality is based on the idea that there are many ways that one can view something, and once again it is up to the individual to decide which way the thing will be perceived. ... If the metaphysical view of the physical object were true, then the actual reality of those objects would be in question since they would most likely be perceived differe...
The definition of ambiguity, according to The American Heritage College Dictionary, is 1. Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation: moral ambiguity. 2. Something of doubtful meaning: a poem full of ambiguities. Robert Frost's "Design" manages to fit both of these definitions, as he uses ambiguous diction to reach an ambiguous conclusion. ... The ambiguity in "Design" is the most important part of the poem....
The scream, whether, synchronized, stretched or silenced sails between the cinema and social reality and embodies a perpetual meaning described as "rigged."" ... Due to the presumption that those screams which populate the screen void of emotion do so under the laws of physics which govern our worldly reality. ... It is not hard, then, to perceive the cinematic scream as an important moment. ... The scream had fully developed into an ambiguous fixture in the dramatic sense especially as its placement in a dramatic context. ... Yet, the darkest aspect of the female scream's ambiguousnes...