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My Individual Visual Perception

Submitted by JaymElaine on Thu, 05/17/2007 - 9:07pm.

After today's class, 03/20/07, I was stumped...as usual for this class. We talked about vision and individual visual perception. So let's see here, if I see an apple, I know that it is an apple because I was taught as a child that an object with those dimensions, that size and color, and smell is consistent with an apple. But am I really looking at an apple? My brain could be playing tricks on me. My brain is merely making sense of the sensory input coming in through my eyes and nose. My friend comes along and sees the same object; has she also processed it to be an apple? And if so, did she process that in the same way that I just did? Is the apple really an apple, or is it an apple because my brain said that it was? What if it really something else? Or, again, I could really just be thinking into this just a bit too much!

Jayme E. Hopkins, '08

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