General Education Science of Living Systems 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Immanuel Kant, Occipital Lobe, Mcgurk Effect
18 Mar 2016
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No, because it takes a brain to create sound and perception. Sensation: the process by which events in the world give rise to events in the brain. Perception: the process by which events in the brain give rise to our experiences. John locke realism: feels right, but is wrong. Immanuel kant idealism : feels wrong, but is right. Sensation: importing the important: we are only sensing a small few of the things, bees navigate by the earth"s magnetic fields, nature builds the sensory equipment into organisms that they need to survive. Where pathway does not use color, and computes information in black and white uses information about brightness and luminosity to tell where you are in space. Spinning dancer: ames room depth perception, weirdest room in the world appeared, or children grow in size, your brain embraces the wrong theory about the size of the children.
