throughout our lives our brains have been taught and trained to recognize certain things and every year our understanding of these things grows. however, there are many things in this world we are unfamiliar with, things we dont know or understand, and thats where the brain comes in. or brain, most of the time, will try to make sense of things we dont understand or percieve wrong. A gestalt, which is a german word for form or shape, is a pattern which enables us to make sense out of some complexity. a gestalt could be a bunch of randome patterns that dont make any sense but our brain looks for specific patterns and enables us to find a shape that we can recognize.
the rorschach test is an ink blot test, which is usually used to test a persons mental state. ink is spilled on paper and then folded in half, which makes a symetrical shape on both sides of the paper. the person taking the test will then try to make sense of the ink on the paper, and depending on thier result psycologists were able to see thier mental state. this is an example of how our brain uses prior knowledge to make sense of random patterns. if throughout your life you have been exposed to violence and sadness, it is likely that your brain will try to find some of that violence or aggressiveness in the ink spread on the paper, but if you were brought up under different circumstances your brain will make out a different pattern that you can recognize.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
PLATO'S ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE
In Plato's allegory of the cave, there are prisoners chained in a cave and unable to move their heads. they can only see the wall in front of them. there is a fire that burns behind them, and between the fire and the prisoners puppeteers walk down and cast shadows on the wall which the prisoners think are the real object. they think this because its what they have seen all their lives and their brain has been trained to interpret the shadows as real objects. One prisoner breaks his chains and escapes. he is shocked, by what he is seeing, at first but later on wanders around with curiosity and joy. He, later on, feels the need to inform the other prisoners about all the other things they're missing and that the shadows are not the real objects, but the other prisoners " sentence him to death".
everyone believes what theyre taught to believe when growing up and belive that anything that goes against it is false. just like that, the prisoners did not accept what he was saying because all thier life, thier brains have been taught that the shadows are the real objects. Plato gives an example, if you were to pass a book in between the fire and the wall the prisoners might see the shadow and tell each other that it is a book but its not. they are looking at the shadow of a book but because thier brain has adjusted to the fact that what they are looking at is infact a book. another example is the illusion we saw in class. A group of lines are drawn straight but no matter how you look at it they appear to be bent, because our brain has been taught that anything that looks like that is bent. If we were to show the same picture to the Aborgines they would tell us that the lines are infact straight, because they havent been taught otherwise. therefore thier brain is open to accept that the illusion is straight.
It is true that Platos allegory does reveal something of human nature. We do tend to see the world in as few dimentions as possible. We have been taught several things over and over and if anyone tells us any different, we do not accept it. there are some people more open minded than others but i think that almost everyone in this world will not accept anything different from what they and thier brains have been taught.
In Plato's allegory of the cave, there are prisoners chained in a cave and unable to move their heads. they can only see the wall in front of them. there is a fire that burns behind them, and between the fire and the prisoners puppeteers walk down and cast shadows on the wall which the prisoners think are the real object. they think this because its what they have seen all their lives and their brain has been trained to interpret the shadows as real objects. One prisoner breaks his chains and escapes. he is shocked, by what he is seeing, at first but later on wanders around with curiosity and joy. He, later on, feels the need to inform the other prisoners about all the other things they're missing and that the shadows are not the real objects, but the other prisoners " sentence him to death".
everyone believes what theyre taught to believe when growing up and belive that anything that goes against it is false. just like that, the prisoners did not accept what he was saying because all thier life, thier brains have been taught that the shadows are the real objects. Plato gives an example, if you were to pass a book in between the fire and the wall the prisoners might see the shadow and tell each other that it is a book but its not. they are looking at the shadow of a book but because thier brain has adjusted to the fact that what they are looking at is infact a book. another example is the illusion we saw in class. A group of lines are drawn straight but no matter how you look at it they appear to be bent, because our brain has been taught that anything that looks like that is bent. If we were to show the same picture to the Aborgines they would tell us that the lines are infact straight, because they havent been taught otherwise. therefore thier brain is open to accept that the illusion is straight.
It is true that Platos allegory does reveal something of human nature. We do tend to see the world in as few dimentions as possible. We have been taught several things over and over and if anyone tells us any different, we do not accept it. there are some people more open minded than others but i think that almost everyone in this world will not accept anything different from what they and thier brains have been taught.
A BEAUTIFUL PERSON Q2
As i have grown, i have a different idea of a beautiful person and i think that my understanding of beauty will still continue to change as i grow older. when you're younger you do not think of beautiful people. some people might but i dont think that meeting beautiful people or thinking about beauty is not on the top of our "to do list" when we were young. As you grow older your idea of beauty changes from either experience or maturity, or possibly other things. Everyone has thier ideas of beauty and i think it will keep changing as they grow older.
As i have grown, i have a different idea of a beautiful person and i think that my understanding of beauty will still continue to change as i grow older. when you're younger you do not think of beautiful people. some people might but i dont think that meeting beautiful people or thinking about beauty is not on the top of our "to do list" when we were young. As you grow older your idea of beauty changes from either experience or maturity, or possibly other things. Everyone has thier ideas of beauty and i think it will keep changing as they grow older.
A BEAUTIFUL PERSON
Everyone has a different opinion of a beautiful person. Everyone is beautiful but maybe not to everyone. What some consider beauty others might not. For example, if you meet someone and you think shes/hes a beautiful person according to your definition of beautiful, your friends or other people might not she/he is beautiful.A beautiful person to me is someone that is attractive both body and personality wise. someone that makes you feel different when you're around them. a beautiful person is good on the inside and outside and has a genuine personality. A beautiful person is someone that has a good personality, looks, and always has a friendly smile.
Everyone has a different opinion of a beautiful person. Everyone is beautiful but maybe not to everyone. What some consider beauty others might not. For example, if you meet someone and you think shes/hes a beautiful person according to your definition of beautiful, your friends or other people might not she/he is beautiful.A beautiful person to me is someone that is attractive both body and personality wise. someone that makes you feel different when you're around them. a beautiful person is good on the inside and outside and has a genuine personality. A beautiful person is someone that has a good personality, looks, and always has a friendly smile.
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