Questions tagged [perception]
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Is it possible to imagine a color one has never seen before?
We can easily imagine any color we have seen at some point in life (e.g., white, black, rainbow colors). But what would it take one to understand and "see" a new color?
P.S.: There are more colors than we see, aren't there?
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How did George Berkeley justify his disbelief in matter?
I recently read Berkeley's work entitled "Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous" in which he gives an account very similar to that of Kant.
"Appearances, so far as they are thought as objects according to the
unity of the categories, are…
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Why do people perceive the randomness of events so poorly?
People who are not trained in statistics and randomness (and even sometimes those who are) tend to draw horrible conclusions about whether an event is random or caused. Fundamentally my question is - why is this true?
Note that I am talking about…
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What is the role of sensations in Wittgenstein's private language argument?
In Philosophical Investigations 244-254, before talking about private signs, Wittgenstein is talking about sensations.
He seems to divide this section into addressing in what way words refer to sensations, and in what way sensations themselves can…
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How can we understand the "intentional fallacy" mentioned by Pylyshyn?
In his book, Things and Places, Zenon W. Pylyshyn says the following:
What has gone wrong is that we are using the content of
phenomenological experience as the explanandum: we are trying to
explain the content of the experience by positing…
user3017
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If nothing happens, does time still pass?
This question may have been asked before; actually, it's definitely been asked before, since it's on the topic of whether time is real or a man-made construct, but I don't believe it has yet been asked in this specific way.
We have 2 events, A and…
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Does one's perception of reality affect reality?
When taking in a situation, how much does the perception and predisposition to certain feelings (anger, anxeity, etc) as well as all the various enviroment inputs, like how one was raised, the things at stake, etc affect the outcome of this…
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Starting on Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
I'm taking undergraduate studies in Social Sciencies and because of a research I'm working on I started to read Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception and realized that this book requires a certain amount of previous knowledge on Phenomenology.…
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What perceptual error is this?
Consider this scenario:
Andy believes all gay people are "flamboyant", because all gay people he has encountered in the past have met that perception.
In reality, Andy has met many gay people who he wouldn't describe as flamboyant, but he just…
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Clear and distinct
Descartes talks about clear and distinct perceptions, in which clear means 'what is present and accessible to the attentive mind' and distinct means 'being clear and sharply separated from all other perceptions so that it contains within itself only…
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What is the physical world if everything is perception?
This is ultimately the question that raises for me when I think about the 'nature of consciousness' and neurosciences.
I don't think there's a point in denying science. Perception comes from the brain. It's brain processes that make up our…
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What are convincing examples of "mistaken" qualia?
What is the strongest example that we can be mistaken about the experience of our qualia?
The reasoning for the infallibility of the experience of qualia is based on the immediateness of qualia. There is nothing between the subject and qualia,…
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In what ways is Merleau-Ponty following (late/unpublished) Husserl?
... or, to put it differently: to what extent has Husserl already ancitipated in his unpublished writings what Merleau-Ponty has been developing later?
The standard narrative goes that Husserl remained an idealist (and dualist) throughout his life…
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Proof that red and blue are different
How do you prove that two colors like red and blue are different? I'm not talking about their difference in frequency, I'm talking about its perception. It seems to me that the only possible argument to justify they're different is because you can…
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Was active ignorance the genesis of self awareness?
In other words, is an organism's ability to ignore some of the sensory input it receives from the outside world the first requirement in defining self from other?
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