Looking at life from one vantage point requires some consideration of the location, direction, and time-frame of that point of view. Are there mechanisms of perception? (i.e. physical (sight, sound, tactile, palette, balance, and olfactory, etc.) and contextual (social attitudes, economic status, gender, and racial)). How do 'perceptual screens' affect the decisions and bias of people? What advantages can be gained by switching your vantage point? What factors impede this switch?
We viewed parts of Samsara by Ron Fricke and we talked about a clip from The Matrix by the Wachowski brothers, the latter containing some powerful visual adaptations of Rene DesCarte's "I think, therefore I am". How do you know what is real? How does perception change over time? or with a different reference point?
I would like to add JoHari's window into the discussion. It is a way of considering information and who knows it. This might be a topic for further home discussion in that it can illuminate parts of the psyche that we are unaware exist.
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How does the accumulation of perception affect your actions? Can a form exist beyond the perception? Does it stay static? What effect do the unperceived factors play in reality?
The first question posed in the second paragraph of Mr. C's post took me a while to figure out. I've come to the conclusion that one may assume they have an idea of what's real, but you can never truly know because several different viewpoints need to be incorporated to gain an accurate understanding. Several different viewpoints need to be considered because there are many different ideas of what's real, and each of these ideas possesses its own characteristics that separate it from other viewpoints. These principles are exemplified in the Dove video above. In the video, personal perception was almost always different from reality, which other people seemed to have a more accurate sense about. This is most likely due to the fact that people over-analyze their personal characteristics and position relative to perfection, which cannot be achieved. Other people set more reasonable expectations regarding characteristics and positions, and these people have a more accurate viewpoint as a result.
ReplyDeleteYour perception can change the more knowledgeable you are. It is a part of the mind that can change the most. Everyday we are confronted with new ideas that can change our perception and how we looked at things. in the video on beauty I find it interesting to see how much your perception on yourself can be warped into something else. The smallest comment can change your thought for a long time. I believe that perception is always changing but also can keep some ideas the same. Such as the thought of yourself. If someone asks why your under eye is so dark, you are going to start looking and noticing little things about yourself that you don't like, thus you will perceive yourself differently (more negatively) then before. If someone tells you that your smile is beautiful then you will see that you have beauty and again the perception of yourself will change. With perception you must realize that everyone will have a different idea of what they see. This has to do with your background and what you have grown up knowing. The knowledge that you gain and grow with will change perception and help change who you are as you grow. You must remember that everyone will perceive things differently and with others stand points you can learn to grow and be more open-minded.
ReplyDeleteWe had an interesting conversation in class today regarding the concept of "perception screens." I think that one of the coolest things about human beings is that we can take all of our memories and experiences and thoughts and feelings and combine them into one big lens through which we see the world. These perception screens are basically like a filter on the lens, shaping our view of the world by our past experiences. A facet of this concept is the question as to whether or not these perception screens are a good thing. Prejudice, for example, is something generally negative that happens when our perception screens only allow us to see a stereotype or a one-dimensional version of something that has many different sides and intricacies.
ReplyDeleteThe Palestine/Israeli conflict is something that I think would make a good case study for the negative affects of perception screens. I think Mr C might have mentioned this in class. The Palestinians would like nothing to do with the Israelis, and the Israelis feel the same way about the Palestinians. A study was conducted on the two populations in general in which each was presented with the other side's solution. Naturally, the Israelis rejected the Palestinian solution and the Palestinians the Israeli one. The Palestinian plan was then presented again to the Israelis, however it was not said to be a plan of Palestinian origin. Surprisingly, many Israelis liked the plan, having no knowledge of its creators, as it offered a beneficial solution to the conflict at hand. I think that the main lesson to be gathered from this study is that our perception drastically shapes how we perceive the world. If we let our prejudices cloud our view, it may be in our favor to attempt to open up our minds to new ideas, regardless of their connotations.
"How do you know what is real?" I do not know what is real, rather, I decide what is real. The concept of reality is as skewed as it is hard to understand. I may have a dream which feels indistinguishable from reality, I have never had a dream where I knew I was dreaming. Yet, when I wake up and vaguely remember the occurrences of that dream, I decide that this is reality and that was not. I cannot know if that is true, but I have decided it. Your perception of reality can never be denied nor confirmed but in order to endure the minutiae of everyday life you have to decide what is real and what is not. The thought of having your ideas of reality confirmed to be true seems somehow more unsettling then having them proved to be untrue, I am more open to believing I am wrong about reality than believing that I am right about it.
ReplyDeleteAs far as perceptions go, it is undeniable that no two people have the same perceptions because there are no two absolutely identical human beings. It is a hopelessly frustrating reality that you can never truly understand another person, no matter how badly you may want to, because you can never see something through their same perception screen. Take, for example, the final clip of this blog featuring "Moonlight Sonata": participants in this blog, inclusive of the three people to comment before me, can't and won't hear and perceive that song in the same way. The first time I had the piano arrangement of "Moonlight Sonata" I was awoken by the sound of it coming from the family member of a dear friend playing the song on his piano and therefore my immediate reaction and perception of the music is to associate it with my emotions of the first time I heard it and to apply my own bias and memory to hearing it. This makes my experience and perception one unable to be reciprocated by another. This is true for the perceptions of each person.
One of the questions posed was whether perceptions change with a different reference point. This is absolutely fascinating, since if perceptions can change so drastically based on the reference point one is starting from, it seems perhaps they are not quite as concrete as we would like to assume. There are numerous things about my personal interpretations and beliefs that I can clearly trace to specific external influences. As humans, often times we would like to believe that our values are intrinsically right and come from a place far more pertinent to our intelligence and consciences than simply were and with who we grew up. Often times too, we perceive our values as a set in stone distinguishing factor in our personalities and existences. However, if so many different interpretations are possible depending on these different perceptual screens, perhaps they are infinitely more fluid than we would assume. If so many variations are possible, how can one ever be considered superior?
ReplyDelete"Perception" and "Perception Screens" are both such amorphous concepts that it is extremely difficult to define exactly what they are and how they effect our existence. Like human emotions, it's impossible to categorize "perception screens" (essentially another term for bias) as being inherently good or bad; they're just "there." Yes, they exist at the very core of our skewed, often inaccurate perspectives. They also exist at the core of our most astute, enlightened perspectives and tendencies.
ReplyDeleteI think that the power which exists within our ability to point to perception screens as being the cause of much of our individual and societal struggle, is the power of choice. In that, if we are aware that the way we feel about something doesn't necessarily reflect the truth, we can question our feelings and our biases and maybe bring ourselves closer to a less-biased individual reality. I do believe that a reality exists without bias; in which objects and events are not acted upon by conscious thought, and things simply "are". In my opinion, the closer that we can collectively get to perceiving this reality, the easier it will be to overcome the perceptual barriers that divide us, and exist with a greater degree of harmony.
I honestly love thinking about this and I do it all the time. Our table activity was looking through the eyes of aliens that had come to earth. Looking at the earth now compared to how I thought it looked as a child makes me really sad. I thought it was the cliché planet earth with green forests and grasslands you grow up seeing in cartoons and books. Earth is our only planet and source of life yet people constantly waste and abuse their existence.
ReplyDeleteOur lives are in a way each a privilege we have all evolved to on earth, surviving from it and now it is dying and eventually we will greedily overfill our glass of life and run out sooner than we naturally should. I believe that if everyone was able and would try to see their lives from another perspective, the world would be a greener, better beautiful place for us to coexist in.
Empathy also has a part in perspective, how we would think and feel if something happening to another person was us. All senses are part of using 'perceptual screens' but each person will judge each situation differently (some more alike than others) and hopefully will be open minded enough to help them make the best ethical decision. I believe that in every debate, before hand everyone should sit and meditate on the perceptual screen of the opposing side to see each side as equally as possible for a more effort debate.
We base our perception on our experiences and the emotions that we felt from those experiences and each feeling unconsciously gets related to another, which reminds me of the Chinese belief of having three faces, alone with the Johari window as in there being another 'you' in you that controls 'you' which is being controlled by what that other 'you' best thinks decisions should be made... I just think that people should all go in the same (best) direction but not all see the same way or else they will all take the same step to the same spot and never be able to move past that one point of similar thought.
I believe that vantage points are everything! Frist of all without vantage points perception would not exist. Not only are vantage points extremely important to reasoning but they are very mysterious and incredibly diverse as no one thinks the same way. As far as vantage switches that take place within our own self, I would say a few factors are necessary: knowledge, emotion, and wisdom. Your perception of another person, for example, can change very suddenly and in just a moment you see them in a completely different or enhanced light. This is perhaps because when we gain knowledge of something that triggers an emotion in ourselves, the previous perception can become inaccurate.
ReplyDeleteI think that perception of something highly depends on the location, time, and everything else about the time in which you perceived something to be someway. However, I strongly believe that once these ideals of something have been percieved by someone as something, then in the future it is nearly impossible to change how someone perceives something. This is partially do to the perception screens people set up for themselves. When it comes to people changing there vantage points I'm not so sure how beneficial it is to the society. If one person changes their vantage point new ideas of what something is like are developed ultimately benefiting everyone this person comes in contact with. However if too many people change their vantage point no new idea can be developed, do the almost infinite amount of ways someone can percieve something. This would end up not benefiting society because no one would be able to agree on a decision do to the fact that there are an almost infinite amount of decision. As far as how do we tell reality from the fake, I think realistically there is no specific way, of telling what is real. Our brain is programmed to tell us what is actual reality. However there are time in which the brain is tricked, I believe these such times are we people dream. A dream by definition is something that isn't real and when people dream that's when people break away from reality. By breaking away from this reality people are able to discover what could be, in order to not only benefit themselves but to also benefit society. By being impacted by these dreamers is the only way for a persons perception to change and they have to be constantly impacted too otherwise there isn't enough to truly change someone's perception. However these people who don't take the dreamers ideas, they aren't able to grow. They are only seeing things through one lenses. By allowing others to mention their ideas to you, it allows you to add multiple lenses which can help you grow in your understanding.
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ReplyDeletePerception is something that, to each person, is relative and based entirely on thought, experience, and sentiment. If you are you, how can you view the world through an eyes but your own? How can others view the world through yours? You can try, certainly, but even with empathy your view will be limited to your experience with certain events, how that person MUST feel, because how could they not? It is something that quite literally will run you around in circles, and, inevitably, question the very thought of your existence. "I think, therefore I am" , when you get down to the bottom of it, but even that is simply where the line has been drawn, because we do not have the capability or the willpower to venture further with any certainty. I think it's crazy, and wonderful, that all at once anything might be real, and nothing could be real, dreams could be reality and reality could be dreams, but even if it were, would it matter? If dreams were our reality would it not just be our reality? And not our dreams that are actually reality? What if we are all really part of someone else's dream, and when they wake up we will cease to exist at all? In dreams or reality? This wonderful paradox is what helps some people get out of bed in the morning, because if anything can exist, then anything is possible, quite literally. It is possible that assuming this is a dream I will wake up in reality and find trees are actually purple, there are two moons, and the sun is silver instead of golden. And now I just feel like I'm in Inception. So I'll end this now.
ReplyDeleteResponding to the question asking what do we know is real, I think that the answer lies within ourselves as to what we believe is real and what we believe is the truth. None of this could be real but the fact that we continue to be makes it all real to those who believe in the notion of reality. To that point, perception changes all the time with us because of the way we age and the different people that we surround ourselves with. As we grow older, we are able to look more at mistakes and see how they might be fixed by ourselves or others, giving us a chance to change our perception of the situation and how it should have been handled. Also, when we surround ourselves with different people, we are able to learn from them and reflect on our lives and our mistakes with a different "filter" that we might not have had before. The main point that I would like to make is that thoughts are not concrete and we can change thoughts so easily only if we put our minds to accepting a new level of acceptance and perception.
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ReplyDeleteI think that perspective is very important. It is what allows us to view things differently and with an open or narrow mind. But also we can never be able to view things from other peoples point of view. No matter how close of a life or similar life that we have had to a person, some event or thing can change how we view things. That is speaking when it comes to emotional matters or matters that aren’t physical.
The one on perception of the self is interesting. It really shows the inevitability of differing perspectives. I believe this is an important concept to introduce to pubescent girls because they're delusional about their bodies and how they perceive their worth. I have two sisters that are in their early teens and all they do is bitch about little details in their physical appearance that nobody else notices. Conducting an experiment like this one in a middle school could be crucial to the future of positive body image and self confidence, especially in girls.
ReplyDeleteI really feel that the Johari Square is spot on. When one thinks about it, there are tons of things that people don't notice about themselves which others do. For example, one might notice that somebody's accent is somewhat british, but they don't notice it, as I did in seventh grade. At the same time, there are things that others won't know about you by either your neglecting to say it or by purposely hiding it, no examples here, for obvious reasons. There are things that both you and others know, which of course makes up the general perception of yourself, although naturally that perception is not complete. And finally, there is the unknown, that which is yet to be discovered by both you and others. It feels incredibly applicable and important to note across the board.
ReplyDeleteI really feel that the Johari Square is spot on. When one thinks about it, there are tons of things that people don't notice about themselves which others do. For example, one might notice that somebody's accent is somewhat british, but they don't notice it, as I did in seventh grade. At the same time, there are things that others won't know about you by either your neglecting to say it or by purposely hiding it, no examples here, for obvious reasons. There are things that both you and others know, which of course makes up the general perception of yourself, although naturally that perception is not complete. And finally, there is the unknown, that which is yet to be discovered by both you and others. It feels incredibly applicable and important to note across the board.
ReplyDeletePerception is how you process data and information. Everyone has had different experiences and has different personal knowledge as well as common knowledge. These things automatically set up perceptual screens without ever consciously doing thinking about it. The Dove video is amazing. It perfectly depicts negative perceptual screens that most people have had about themselves at one time or another.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to reply to both Madeiline and Allie M, as well as to add my own opinion regarding "perception". First of all, Madeleine, I'd counter your point about "absolute reality". While I do think you are right in saying that some things just "are", I don't think think there is such thing as a universal truth. This theory is called 'moral relativism'. I think the purpose or function of a 'perception" is to inspire action or emotion in response to exposure to something. This being said, perception is the second layer to living in the present. The first layer, or core to the building of a response is the event; the information. This (I think) is what you, Madeleine, are referring to as the things that just 'are'. But, considering the fact that human beings have refined emotions, personalities, and the ability to asses and employ information, nothing can ever just be as it is.
ReplyDeleteIn connection to Allie's comment, perceptions ARE important! Because they inspire action or allow us to translate the information absorbed, I believe perceptions are the cause for motivation. Now, the more I think about this, the more intertwined the ideas of perception and emotion become, and to untangle the knot, we'd have to define and establish the boundaries and classifications of types of emotion in comparison to the functions of perception.
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DeleteHow do we know what is real? Well, we don't in any sense. We can guess what is real, based on the use of our senses, but we have no way of knowing if things are actually real. However, real is a term that is only relative. It is just a word that people created to describe things that seem present in their lives. Maybe the things that are "real" are only the things that we can sense, whether it is actually real or not. Maybe the we are all in a dream (similar to the Matrix) but that dream would be real, because the basic sense of the world describes things in our everyday life so a dream would be real if you believe it is. In this case, the "real world" (that is, the one that you aren't dreaming in) would be fake to us because we would be used to the dream world which we would classify as real.
ReplyDeleteThe question of whether what we perceive is real has been explored for a very long time by many people. Descartes concluded that all you can be sure of is that you exist. Everything and everyone around you could be an illusion, so could how you perceive yourself, your thoughts, and your feelings. But the fact that you think means that you exist in some form, even if you are a brain in a jar. Descartes came to that conclusion nearly 400 years ago, and personally I'm ready to embrace this world whether it's real or not. Considering there has been no opportunity for me to try "the red pill," it seems the best option is to work within the framework of this world. If it's an illusion, we still haven't found a way out.
ReplyDeleteI think the perception plays a huge role in who each of us are. We each view that world through different lens that allow us to interpret information differently and ultimately shape us as humans. But perception is not definite it can change and fluctuate based on any number of things such as, a film, a song, a person, an action, anything. These things that we come across change our lenses and manipulate how we view things. You could not be a religious person at all, but you could hear just one sermon and that could change your definition of right and wrong or good and bad. It may not change drastically it still changes even if by a small margin. Our perception can never stay static, people as people change their perspectives do as well.
ReplyDeleteI think it's impossible to completely change out perception, yes I believe we can alter it a little bit over time but we can't just wake up and say "I am going to use this lens or this one" but our perceptional lens is constantly changing slightly with what we experience from when we first start experiencing things.
ReplyDeletePerceptual screens can deeply affect decisions and bias. They can make a person, figuratively speaking, blind to another's logic of opinion, and prevent a person from changing their perspective. They can also lead to confirmation bias, which will support their own perceptual screen even more. There are advantages to switching perceptual screens, they can lead to a more open mind, as long the switch isn't to another narrower screen. By widening or altering a perceptual screen, a person can alter their own bias and opinions, but only if they are willing to see the other side and consider the fact that they are wrong. It is easier said than done for sure though, because I hink there are mechanisms of perception that affect how we see and process things. Our environment and senses can limit our perception and even create the screen, but if we allow our own senses expand, it hey can in turn widen our screens or eliminate bias. Of course, this situation would be ideal and very difficult, for it takes time, open-mindedness and acception to change our perception and bias, and there are many factors that are intertwined with our ways of perception, and they all have to be taken into consideration in order to evaluate the basis of our opinions.
ReplyDeleteHow do we know what is real? This is a very complicated question to answer because what I would consider real might not be real to others. All of our feelings, thoughts, concepts, physical processes and so on are merely perceptions given to our consciousness. Rene Descartes is famous for battling this question and he concluded that we cannot rely on our senses to prove we are real because our senses are not always reliable when it comes to the real world and that the only thing we can trust is our thoughts. We are unable to know if someone’s senses and perceptions are questionable because it could be our own senses and perceptions that are to be questioned.
ReplyDeleteThe word reality is as relative as the word funny. The ultimate deciding factor of a persons reality is how they think of themselves relative to the mutual reality. A venture capitalist in Manhattan will insist he lives in the real world, while just as few blocks from him lives a single mother with three kids and no fixed income who lives in her real world. Across an ocean, a starving child will live its life convinced it inhabits some type of reality. I believe that our actions shape our reality, and that my reality is different from all of your realities. Only when we have stopped acting can we really say that we have a firm grasp of reality. Hindsight shows us what our reality is, but foresight, to a certain point, allows us to change our reality.
ReplyDeletePerception: a way of regarding, understanding, or interpreting something; a mental impression
ReplyDeleteI would say that the difference between an unperceived factor (a fact) and a perceived factor (a perception) would be the presence of intent. If there is no intent behind the observation, then the factor is a fact. For example, if two people see a door- they both regard and understand it as a door. It is 6'8" tall, wooden, on hinges, and has a doorknob. These are facts. The perception of the door would be its purpose (OR INTENT). Person A could view the door as an obstacle, while person B views it as an opening.
Perceptions can also change with the understanding that each person's observations are, in fact, perceptions. The ability to communicate and convey this effectively allows for a deeper understanding of each person/place/thing that is observed.
What do we know what is real and what is not real is a very interesting and creepy question to me. I love thinking about this and talking about it. A lot of times what is real to me is not real to other people. From different perspectives maybe I would change my mind or maybe they would change there minds. I feel like you will never really know if something is real or not until you try it out or maybe until your death. The question interests me and gets me thinking of so many different things and many different possibilities.
ReplyDeletePerception influences every thing we do and controls how we see certain things. It affects our actions, thoughts, conclusions we make and our point of view. We are aware of things because we perceive and understand them. Our senses make this possible. I think every once and a while it is important to change an aspect of your perception in order to get a different outlook on life. If we just perceive things one way, we will limit ourselves to the many things that are in the world and will eventually become close minded. We as a global community share a lot of similarities in culture, language traditions etc. that many not be very apparent at first, but when looked at more closely, these similarities can be found. By changing our perception and allowing another culture, language, tradition etc. to come into our mind we gain a greater appreciation of things on a world scale and other perceptions may also make it possible to better understand our own ideas and the way we perceive them.
ReplyDeleteI think there are mechanisms of perception. I think that your environment and your physical being have great influence on how you interpret yourself. Just like the woman in the video whose Mother would repeatedly tell her she had a big chin. After a while that Woman started to perceive herself that way. If you repeatedly are told something by others you are going to start believing that.
ReplyDeletePerceptions Screen’s affect the decisions of people because they are such a large part of ones’ identity. Many people’s perception screens hold them back from doing things. They think that they can’t be the ones defy the stereotypes. By switching your vantage point, you gain a whole new perception and idea of things that can benefit you greatly. A main factor that impedes this switch is that many people believe things that aren’t true. For example, many people have misconceptions about themselves and with a new vantage point would gain a whole new light.
You never if something is real. This whole class and your whole life could just be a figment of your imagination. You kind of have to guess if something is real. Your perception changes because new factors enter your life and change the way you look at things normally. For example, say you are anti-gay marriage then your child comes out as a gay then your perceptions on gay marriage are most likely going to change on gay marriage because you want your child to be able to marry who they love. The accumulation of perception affects your actions by making it difficult to do something that doesn’t agree with your perceptions. Yes, a form can exist beyond a perception if you look at something from a different point of view. Normally, when you look at something from a different point of view your perceptions of it changes. The unperceived factors change reality, if you don’t perceive something then you aren’t going to see it and therefore it will change the reality of how things actually are.
Perceptions are a huge part in every individuals life because everyone has different opinions and ideas to express. However, some individuals keep their thoughts to themselves, but those who share their ideas tend to persuade other people to alter their ideology and begin to have the same perception. In the video with the women who continuously told her daughter she had a big chin, and expressed those ideas verbally, so the daughter began to have the same perception, and altered her original thoughts.
ReplyDeletePerception is a word that can hold many meaning for many different things. Trying to understand perception is like trying to sculpt a mountain with your hands, doable but so vast that it probably won't happen.
ReplyDeleteThere is one interesting thought experiment that I have heard of that I believe applies to this topic. Imagine that there is a 2D person that you (as a 3 Dimensional person) are standing before, since you are standing straight in front of them they can comprehend what you are, but if you were to move so that you were looking down on the two dimensional person from the top, they couldn't see you and they, in their 2D world, could never comprehend how you are seeing them. Now take this situation and apply it to ourselves. Their could be other things out their looking at us but because of our perception of the world we can never see them back or even comprehend how and where it is that they are viewing us.
The hardest part of perception is to know what "real" is. Every person is going to view an object slightly differently so what is the right way to view that object. Is it even real or is it all just a figment of one's own imagination? Since there is no known baseline for perception it makes it even harder to understand. It's like trying to understand what words sound like if you can't hear. Our world is in a flexible state of being and constantly changing throughout time in parallel with the constantly changing views of others.
In regards to the never-ending change of perception throughout time, I believe that how our perception changes is one of the main questions about our life. As people progress in their lives, they meet new individuals with different perspectives and travel to different places, learning about different ideas and different ways to see the world. By doing so as humans, our perception changes over time into a more well-rounded view on the world. Another important aspect about perception is that ideas and views towards ideas or people constantly evolve and are never static. The majority of history has been about the world evolving and people gaining new perspective, marking it as a crucial aspect of our lives as a whole.
ReplyDeletePerception is fricken' powerful. This is an obvious statement, but not all truly grasp the concept of perception fully. When thinking about the questions Mr. C posed about perception I realized just how dangerous perception can be. The only perception you have control over is your own and its impossible to control the perception of others. We end up altering or avoiding any behavior we think will be perceived as foolish, some more than others. This causes us to change our path to accommodate the perceptions of others and our goals are compromised or missed altogether. As well as internal conflict, perception also, of course, causes external conflict. I may perceive a room as too hot while someone else may perceive the room as too cold. Or I might perceive my bedtime as perfectly reasonable, while my parents perceive it as "way too late". No amount of discussion or arguing will resolve the difference . These are examples of minute conflict that perception causes, but when human rights, morals, religion, etc. are involved, the situation can be dangerous.
ReplyDeletePerception is one of the most interesting topics we've discussed in TOK. On a straightforward view, we directly perceive the world as it is. The way that things look, feel, smell, taste, and sound is the way that they are. We see colors, for example, because the world is colored. However, perception is a lot more complicated than this. Though things may appear to be colored to us, our experiences of color are merely representative of the surface of objects.Perception goes deeper than just colors though, perception is how we view the intricacies of the world. Perception can be based on a number of different things from Religion to morals to eyesight or lack thereof.
ReplyDeletePerception and perspective, though truly one and the same, as one's perception bias or lack thereof is their perspective. These are what modify knowledge the most, as all the knowledge in the world is useless without some sort of perception of it. Complete apathy towards, for example, a revelation that the War on Terror has amounted in more animosity in the Middle East towards America, not less, would result in nothing. However, the two extremes of shock and anger would mete out total withdrawal and further attack respectively. If one has no perception on how the knowledge and facts are to be taken, they can never be practically acted on, and so are useless. Even drawing one's perspective from factual information is an example of perception, as it reveals that one only considers the explicit truth when perceiving something. Of course, perception differs person to person, and some perspectives are more useful, pragmatic, and correct than others. However, some perception is better than no perception and thus total and unflinching dispassion.
ReplyDeleteperception is very hard to define and try to explain because perception is different for everybody know body sees or hears the same things that you see it is totally unique to you and yourself. perception directly affects your actions because how you presive the word is how you make decisions and what you base your life around. what you presive as fun makes you decide what ur gonna do for fun it will all so help you determine what you want to do in your life after high school.
ReplyDeleteIt is so important to consider, I think, in the process of making decisions/judgements/etc. the tint your perception may have. That tint as you said is created by and connects a lot to the theory of knowledge. For example history, whether personal or of the place or people you come from, greatly dictate how you will perceive a new experience or the action of another person. Similarly, faith and religion effect our perception as well. Those sorts of preconceived ideas or even subliminal sentiments are not necessarily good of bad of course, as they can both inform our decisions and help us to stick to our morals, while also keep us potentially blind from seeing a whole truth. The effort to keep those slants in check is a big component of "open mindedness," one of the elements of the IB learner profile. The decision to be aware of your own bias, is also the decision to consider foreign ideas with a new level of tolerance.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the development of perception begins at the moment one is born. Every action you take and every consequence those actions have slightly alter your perception. Your perception is the most open as a young child and as you are taught things it becomes more and more cemented into your mind. As a child is educated they are taught "right and wrong", "good and bad". The problem is that they are being taught their educator's perception of "right and wrong". I believe that one of the major problems with our society is the copse mindedness that result from being taught in this way. If we where educated from multiple viewpoints we would develop a much less constrictive perception of the world.
ReplyDeletePerception is a very interesting concept. At times, it can have huge advantages. Seeing what is seemingly difficult for you through a different perspective can make you feel more confident. Also, understanding things through another perspective can benefit you by being able to empathize with others more easily. However, it can be very difficult to see things from another perspective. Sometimes, people are in situations that are so different, it is impossible to do.
ReplyDeletePerception is something that effects each and every one of our views, however, we often choose to only consider our own perception. There is a large sum of conflict that could be prevented if we would simply remember to "nod to the opposing side", and consider the perceptions of others as we consider our own.
DeleteThe ability to communicate properly is greatly hindered by different perceptual screens. No matter how accepting we may try to be, everyone has personal biases based on who they are, what they grew up around, the people who influence them the most, whom they most respect. Switching your vantage point can be to your advantage, as conflicts arise regularly from the inability, or disinterest to change ones point of view.
ReplyDeletePerception is a very hard concept to capture because there are so many different perspectives and ways of thinking that you may have. I also think that no matter how many windows of Johari's windows we open up to and try to accept the different perspectives, we will always carry some bias' because that is human nature. Although the nature of the perspectives and bias' we hold can change due to different experiences one has.
ReplyDeleteWhat interests me most about perception how it can change for a person over time. Be it more experiences, new insight, better education, or whatever I believe that people's perception will change over almost anything.This can be good or bad in my opinion, as new perception can lead to more open-mindedness but also a loss of tradition.
ReplyDeleteThe most important thing about perception is experience (in my experience). People who haven't gone out and lived life seem to have the narrowest view of it. My grandmother has left Montana only three times in her life, and read nothing but murder mysteries, and she has a very narrow view of the world. She's managed to stay inexperienced in a lot of ways for her entire life. On the other hand, my father was born in California, travelled the world as a flight attendant, gone to four different colleges (he transferred in undergraduate, studied abroad, and went to graduate school, he didn't go to college 4 different times), and he has a much more open, and in my opinion, healthy perception of life and the world in general. Experience is key to perception.
ReplyDeleteAs I have only very recently realized, distinguishing the your intrinsic perceptions between your extrinsic ones, and in the same way your physical perceptions from you mental ones, is the only way to fully grasp you own understanding of yourself, as well as the paradigm at which you perceive others. Though the idea of removing the deceptive mask of your perception screen is all well and good in theory—it is relatively impossible to actually do. You can observe things from an alternative perspective, take on the mentality that someone else has and try to perceive things the way that they do—but the screen shading each of your judgments and perspectives is permanent and can be changed, through a new understanding of what is true and not true, but cannot be taken away. No individual has the god-like ability of neutrality and cannot be unbiased in every aspect. Over time, your perceptions can change, but it is less subtractive than it is additive. New experiences are added to the mix and thus new lessons are learned which we layer onto our perceptive screen. The more difficult ability is the one involving removal of opinion and belief which was held for so long. The reference to JoHari’s Window is extremely important in the way that it visually lays out the areas of our perception into something simplistic and easy to understand on a basic level, until you try to define each of these sectors within your own perception. Attempting this illuminates how little you may know about your own perspective and the what you are not accurately attributing to be the work of your perception screen, and rather that everyone holds the same beliefs as you. These unperceived and unknown aspects of the world are constantly present around us, though often we do not notice that conflicts are a result of these unmatched perceptions. The Dove Real Beauty Sketches video truly embodies the lack of understanding we really have about what is falsely perceived and what is true. Even with something as supposedly obvious as perceiving ourselves correctly.
ReplyDeleteI think that perception is very powerful, yet very complicated. It is impossible to truly understand someone else's perception, and i think that is what makes it so interesting and part of what makes people so interesting. I think that the dove video was very powerful and a good example of how people drastically interpret things and people differently. As shown in the video, perception can cause insecurities
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