PSY280H1 Lecture Notes - Monism, Panpsychism, Psychophysics
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Final exam, 3h (40%: per exam, there is equal weights on short answers and multiple choice. Optional 1% for volunteer research participation: sign up at brain. pysnup. com. If you"re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell. What you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. -- morpheus" answer to neo in the matrix, 1999. Sensation: the ability to detect a stimulus and, perhaps, to turn that detection into a private experience. Perception: the act of giving meaning to a detected sensation. Plato"s the allegory of the cave : our conception of reality is critically dependent on information gathered through our senses. What we perceived is limited, there is a duality to it. Perception and your sense of reality are the products of evolution: survival, importance of type of energy in the environment determines which senses have developed.