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seeing vs. perceiving

Submitted by aybala50 on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 9:47am.
When something is reflected on the retina, the image that appears there is not the image that we perceive in our brain. This got me thinking about perception in general. I already knew that perception is a complicated process for humans that requires a lot of work on the brain's part. What determines how human's perceive things differently? Is it experience? Some kind of difference in the brain? 

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