PPT-Perception & the External World

Is there anything out there Could I be a brain in a vat An Old Problem Are things as they seem Are there objects independent of me Are there other minds And even if there are. ‘The greatest calamity that can befall people is not that they should be born blind, but rather that they should have eyes and yet fail to see.’. ` Helen Keller, 1880-1968 . Helen Adams Keller. The Fold. . Chapter 7. By Catherine Cheng. 鄭如玉. Two arguments. 1. I . must have a body because an obscure object lives . in . . me. . . 2. We must have a body because . our mind possesses a . Consciousness I. Philosophical Skepticism. about a Neuronal Self. An initial pair of questions:. Are there things about yourself that you would like to change?. What keeps you from changing them?. Let me suggest a theme for today’s lecture.. Gert. Kootstra. Embodied Cognition Course. Course coordinator. Gert. Kootstra, CVAP. kootstra@kth.se. Other organizers. Orjan. . Ekeberg. , CB. Giampiero. . Salvi. , TMH. Time. Wednesdays 10:00-12:00. Perception. Emotion. Jim Carey. WOK: Perception. Sensation and Interpretation. From Last week: Cultural Perception. What did you think of the video. Do you perceive the world culturally. / geographically. An Introduction to . Perception. Epistemology is the theory of knowledge i.e. how do we know what is real or not real?. We will focus . on three theories of perception:. Direct Realism. Indirect (or Representative) Realism. Modified from: http://www.appsychology.com/Book/Biological/perception.htm. Perception. T. he way we interpret the information we sense . The way we interpret the world in many ways dictates our sense of reality.  . ‘The greatest calamity that can befall people is not that they should be born blind, but rather that they should have eyes and yet fail to see.’. ` Helen Keller, 1880-1968 . Helen Adams Keller. AP Psychology. Ms. C. Fahey. We do not actually experience the world directly, but instead we experience it through a series of “filters” we call senses. . The study of these sense and their effect on our behavior is called . CHAPTER 4. SENSATION & PERCEPTION. Sensation. : The process of receiving stimulus energies from the external environment and transforming those energies into neural impulses.. How energy from the world is transformed into neural impulses that our brain can understand.. Learning objectives. understand what is meant by indirect or inferred perception. describe . how . information processing theorists . explain perception, with particular reference to . signal detection theory. Gert. Kootstra. Embodied Cognition Course. Course coordinator. Gert. Kootstra, CVAP. kootstra@kth.se. Other organizers. Orjan. . Ekeberg. , CB. Giampiero. . Salvi. , TMH. Time. Wednesdays 10:00-12:00. 1685-1753. George Berkeley. Catholic Bishop. Empiricist: knowledge through sense experiences. Has been called the founder of idealism. the theory that ultimate reality lies in a realm that transcends the sensual/physical world (Heaven-where God is and in God’s mind) and only the things we can sense, or perceive, exist but are not fully known to us because our perception is subjective. Course Website. www.psy.fsu.edu/~johnson/snp. Read ‘Course Objectives’. Lecture/Lab: 1 Grade. 3 Unit Exams (multiple choice) and a Final Exam (essay). Unit Exam Forgiveness. ‘Schedule’ Page. Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments.