PSYC10003 Study Guide - Final Guide: Visual Cortex, Receptive Field, Retinal Ganglion Cell

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC10003
• Professor: Scott

Document Summary

Platonic view: there is a real world out there, but due to our limited senses, we can only take in/absorb some of it. There is a "real world" but our mortal senses are only capable of sampling a small subsection of it. The world - the shadows on a cave wall" analogy. Our own physical experience of the world makes up our reality. Vision is limited to particular spatial dimensions (that is, we cannot see everything in the world at the same time). The owl"s infra-red vision vs. human visible spectrum (we only see what is biologically useful to us): which of the following is the alternative view which is illustrated in the writing of friedrich. There is no real world, only the world inside your head. The world is a construction of the brain. Quote: the apparent world and the true world means the world" and nothing. " nietzsche.