Philosophy of Perception

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO1kgl0p-Hw&t=41s The video displays the power of the brain and the ways the brain can be tricked into doing things that would usually be out of someone's capabilities  Two people were randomly chosen to shot free throws in basketball blind folded and then they took them of and shot them without. The first person missed all 10 blindfolded but was told that they were close or they went in when they didn't but when she took the blindfold off and shot them they were much closer and some actually went in, proving that the brain can be tricked by positivity. This relates to perception because if you tell yourself you can do something or someone is hyping you up into thinking you could do something you and your brain will preform better than with negative attitudes.

In this video,  Meredith Leston talks about body dysmorphia (anorexia) and the struggles she went through during that time. She talks about how when she looked at herself in the mirror her perception of herself was different of what was actually there. When Meredith looked in the mirror she saw an over weight version of herself that wasn't even there which made her keep starving herself. This shows how when someones perception is off it can affect someone in a real negative way. 

This video is a prime example of how advertising companies use priming to get us to buy their products. The break down of how this process precisely works starts with an experience, which then leads to creating a stimulus that then sends a signal to start the process to perceive the experience by recognizing the stimulus by incorporating prior knowledge, opinions, and beliefs. This experiment exemplifies how we perceive the world around us, and how the images surrounding our daily activities can influence what we think. By the subjects incorporating all of the images that were strategically placed along the subject's route to the office, supports that perceiving is believing. Many advertising companies take advance of the fact that we believe what we perceive through subliminal advertising, which works by subconsciously appealing to viewers, or at least to help them to visually remember the product that is being showcased.

This relates to what we’ve discussed in class because of the visual perception aspect and that the ability to perceive motion is very important to daily life. Shadows or visual cues can change your visual perception of an object and the motion. This relates to the bottom-up processing because its about processing information. Bottom-up processing deals with sensory information. We perceive the dancer turning one way because the cues we receive from our experiences affect what we perceive. What you perceive is based on the sensory information that is coming in.

The human mind is capable of so many. different things that are turly incredible but most of the these incredbile things we take for granted. This article shows us the simple visual aspects and how our braing forms them within our mind. Throughout the article there are examples for different kinds of laws. These laws include Law of Proximity or Nearness, Law of Similarity, Law of Good Figure or Symmetry, Law of Closure, and Law of Continuity. All of these laws sound complicated and you amy assume that they are complex, however they aren't anywhere near that level. They are rather explnations for the reasoning behind why we perceive what we perceive. https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/human-perception-fascinating-facts/

In this YouTube video, "How Magicians Trick Your Brain," it shows how not only how magicians know how to fool their audience, but how ones brain fools them as well in the process. I connected it to the topic we talked about in class the top down processing. Our brain is using top down processing because as the videos shows the coin trick, from prior knowledge and experience ones brain doesn't even realize the passing of the coin thats right in front of there eyes and actually believes it appeared in the magicians hand when really the magician passes the coin into the other hand. The brain uses the top down processing and believes magicians will actually pull the coin from behind ones ear or have it magically appear in their hand, so it doesn't acknowledge whats actually going on. It's perception is based off prior knowledge and experience using the top down processing and I found that that processing plays a big role in how magicians are successful to pull off the