PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pattern Matching, Wolverine, Iceberg
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1) reality is a story and told to us by our brains: reality looks different from different perspectives. 2) attention: zen story: asks his questions. Neo has been living in a dream world. Always living in my internal realization of reality perceiving what i constructed to be reality. Not beaming reflection of reality (not mirrors) More like artists / story tellers: weaving patterns together like a story. We live in a representation of reality: this construction process involves a lot of guesswork filling in the gaps . How do we know what to include in our story: this subjective representation occurs within the brain ex. Only has access to a limited subset of reality : the limitations of our sensory-perceptual system are due to: The sensitivity of our sensory mechanisms (natural limits to the rangers some arrows don"t make it cuz we cant pick it up)