Sense+Perception

=Sense Perception=

[Remember, you need to write at least 3 important take-aways under each of the topics below, in your own words.]

1. What is a 'sense'? How many senses we really have. Other animals' senses. Problems with how we interpret the few signals we do receive.

2. How do senses work? Transducers. How we "see colors" and "taste spiciness". Where is the color?

3. POVs (points of view). Subjectivity and objectivity. "What Really Happened?" Are some POVs better than others? Some more accurate? Is it better to have multiple POVs?

4. The purpose of human senses: Recording data or organizing meaning? Perception as "attention dependent" and "gist-dependent", focused on //processing// data.

5. The priority of meaning: Advantages (coherent, stable experiences) and disadvantages (change and inattention blindness, untrustworthy eyewitness accounts)

6. Organizing principles of sense perception: parsimony, seeing things as they "should" be, seeing things in context, seeing wholes rather than parts, "closure" (naming the stimulus)

7. Theories about the relation between sense perception and reality. Common-sense realism. Scientific realism. Phenomenalism.