01:830:301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Optical Illusion, Multistability, Solipsism
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Perception is our link and access to the world, construction of our reality - our surroundings right now at this moment. Informs an organism about what is in its environment and where it is. The physical world is the world that we can measure with the use of scientific instruments. Response 1 - they"re one and the same thing. Naive realism - the world is simply as it appears. I see the apple as round and red because it is round and red . I feel the water to be cold because it is cold . We are sensitive to a small fraction of the physical energy around us - we cannot perceive electric or magnetic fields. Different animals perceive the world very differently, their sensory and perception organs detect different things in different ways - sharks can sense electrical trails left by their prey.
