PSYCH 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Likelihood Principle, Retina
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Along with learning, memory, attention, reasoning, etc. Experience resulting from stimulation of the senses. Results in chalmers" stream of consciousness movie . This consists of various (identified) objects situated in space. Form, color, movement, sound, even meaning and intent. E. g. , happy-looking person coming to greet you. Providing this meaningful, integrated movie is perception"s purpose. From very simple (e. g. , edges) to very complex (faces) We can think of this as the bottom-up aspect of perception. Many different states of world could produce same perceptual input. E. g. , a given person could be big/far away or small/close. We resolve ambiguity through rapid, complex, unconscious inference. Occurs on both simple (e. g. , location) and complex (e. g. , speech) levels. An infinite number of possible actual objects could do this! Nonetheless, we estimate the true shape, location, distance, etc. of actual object in environment this is what we experience.
