SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Change Blindness, Object Permanence
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What our visual system knows and assumes about the physical world: Principles of rigidity (leopard spots don"t stay behind when the leopard moves) Principles of object permanence (hiding effects: dot hiding behind the square, its not just disappearing is what we assume. How the brain constructs perceptual reality, 4 key. The problem of perception is underspecified: reverse optics. The brain therefore makes assumptions in order to interpret the input, So, we do not have direct access to physical reality, we only have the internal representations that our brains create a. The only guarantee is that our internal representations are useful, not that they are veridical (accurate) It might be a useful exemplar that the mind is composed of specialized modules that evolved to solve specific computational problems faced by our ancestors. Normal adult monkeys like to look at monkey more than monkeys and humans than monkeys and humans.
