Blog #2

Here are a few links on my topic on the Problems of Perception. I decided that this would be the best and most interesting topic I could do.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-problem/#1
This really covers all the basics and allows you to get a good foundation on perception and how we as humans see the world.

Here is a small excerpt from that site about the Arguments of Illusion:

• An illusion here may be defined, with A.D. Smith, as “any perceptual situation in which a physical object is actually perceived, but in which that object perceptually appears other than it really is” (Smith 2002: 23). For example, a white wall in yellow light can look yellow; a sweet drink can taste sour if one has just eaten something sweeter; a quiet sound can seem loud if it is very close to you; and so on. In these cases it is not necessary that one is deceived into believing that things are other than they are; so illusion in this sense need not involve deception. One can know that one is experiencing an illusion when it is happening.

This was taken from the above link listed...

http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/elib/do/document?set=search&groupid=1&requestid=lib_standard&resultid=3&edition=&ts=C89C5C9ECCA9A81FF4BBDA1CF18826C7_1212593427744&start=1&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B152942457

This link talks about the use of our eyes in motion perception and is quite interesting...

http://www.seop.leeds.ac.uk/entries/time-experience/

Finally this link talks about the perception of time and our existence on earth...another good read