Book Elaborations: A Metaphor for Perception
May 25, 2016 16:30:37 GMT -5 by Auburn
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Post by Auburn on May 25, 2016 16:30:37 GMT -5
Perception is an irrational process, though not necessarily because the connections it makes are linked improperly, but because the links are formed incidentally, not through rational deduction.
Associations made by the perception processes are made on the basis of shared attributes – data is connected so long as it relates to other data, independent of any rational justification for the association within parameters of laws or axioms.
Cognitive Type, ch.2
Associations made by the perception processes are made on the basis of shared attributes – data is connected so long as it relates to other data, independent of any rational justification for the association within parameters of laws or axioms.
Cognitive Type, ch.2
This scene is from the Disney classic Fantasia (part: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor). What we see here is the language of music merging with the audible. We see associations being made between shapes, colors, and sounds. These are examples of "links" made on the "basis of similarity" without concern for laws (of physics) or axioms.
The way the raw datastream of perception operates, it is an unfiltered synthesis of the sensory and it's implications. The above video leans more toward describing abstract perception, which is wholly visceral and impressionistic.
Were we without concrete perception, our minds would never form a tactile and correct concept of reality and would be utterly lost in an abstract delusion where imagination is taken as literal reality.
