PSYB51H3 Lecture Notes - Materialism, Panpsychism, Monism
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What does early philosophy teach us about perception: plato"s cave allegory. What the prisoners perceive is very limited. This is plato"s metaphor for our perception. Our perception is very limited, and reality is much richer: perception and your sense of reality are the products of evolution. Importance of type of energy in the environment determines which senses have developed. Ex venus fly trap, evolved to have a tactile sense perception. Some animals are able to sense stimuli that humans cannot. We don"t necessarily need these senses. (ex snakes sense of infrared light to catch mice, we don"t need it because we don"t have a need to eat mice) Ex dolphins: ben underwood (blind child) sent out clicks with his tongue and could see using that, heraclitus you can never step into the same river twice. You cannot perceive the same event in the same manner each time: because of experience/learning, adaptation, change.
