PSYB51H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Neuroimaging, Superior Oblique Muscle, Positron
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Only your own sensory experience is accessible to you. Ability to detect pressure of a finger and turn detection into a pirvate experience is an example of sensation. Perception is the act of giving meaning to those detected sensations: how you understand the sensation. Everything we feel/ think/ do is based on sensation and perception. French philosopher, etienne bonnot de condillac askedhis readers to imagine the mental life of a statue with no senses and he concluded that the statue would have no mental life. Sensation and perception must be approached as a scientific approach. Measuring the most extreme level and smallest level that you can feel something safely. Qualia/quale: a private conscious experience of sensation or perception. We have no direct way to experience someone else"s experiences. Perception of the world depends on the activity of our sensory nerves at least as much as it depends on the world itself.
