Friday, February 27, 2009

Depends on Perceptions!

Perception leads to a person's view of the world. It is amazing how people can perceive different the same idea. I have often wondered why we perceive the same thing differently. Everything is the same but our perception poles apart. Why?

I think we all perceive things differently. Through language and communication we share and modify our perceptions which are, then made real by the shared understanding.
For example, what I see as red and you see as red may be perceived by other as a yellow. But over time, shared experiences, and communication; we learn to recognize particular sensors picking up particular stimuli as red. Thus red becomes a reality to us.

Just like we may not be perceiving red in exactly the same way; we may perceive other things also differently. So, we need to make sure we perceived the same thing before; we give a respond to somebody.

1 comment:

  1. Well, we might see different shades of red!

    K. Smith
    Eng. 226

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