PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Wine Tasting, New Taiwan Dollar, Carl Jung
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Perception is a process of creative storytelling and inference making. We have to fill in a lot of gaps. Much more profoundly though, this means that we are not directly interacting with reality, but rather, we are creating a fiction about reality and interacting with this fiction. And we hope it"s a pretty close match. Our brains look for a correspondence between patterns that have been stored in through past experience and pattern of sensory stimuli that is being experienced. Your brain is using knowledge aka stuff experienced, to decode incoming info. What it cannot decode, it either guesses about (if it has some reasonable info) or ignores entirely, Thus, what the brain has learned to see in the past, is largely what it sees in the present or just sees what it wants/ likes to see: example.
