What is the theme Perception vs Reality?

Question

I have a english test tomorrow and we're going to have to write a paragraph relating a book and the theme perception vs reality...
WHAT IS perception vs reality exactly?

I know it's something compared to what is actually happening...

What does perception mean really?
Can someone give me a good example comparing perception vs reality please?

Answer 1

Perception is a personal belief as to what is happening. 3 people watching or reading the same thing can have a different perception. For example, you see someone hovered over a blood soaked body. Their hands are all covered in blood too. A bloody knife lay beside the victim. What do you perceive happened? I may think that the murderer is hovered over the body while you may think an innocent person just help try to save a murder victim and that is how he got bloody. The reality may not be either of these too scenarios. The reality could be that the person was knocked unconscious, and before the person could stab them the police shot the suspect. The suspect then dropped the knife, dropped to his knees and grasped his chest as his blood spilled over the unconscious person on the floor.

Answer 2

I talked to that some as you say in your last line of narration. He has given me the following answer to it.



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Perception is a personal belief as to what is happening. 3 people watching or reading the same thing can have a different perception. For example, you see someone hovered over a blood soaked body. Their hands are all covered in blood too. A bloody knife lay beside the victim. What do you perceive happened? I may think that the murderer is hovered over the body while you may think an innocent person just help try to save a murder victim and that is how he got bloody. The reality may not be either of these too scenarios. The reality could be that the person was knocked unconscious, and before the person could stab them the police shot the suspect. The suspect then dropped the knife, dropped to his knees and grasped his chest as his blood spilled over the unconscious person on the floor.



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Answer 3

How we see things vs. how they actually are. Perception is an interpretation filter of impulse signals that are registered by the sense organs and sent to the brain through the nervous system. Because the mind cannot register the enormity of all there is, it relies of perception to compress waveforms into the tangible reality we observe. All matter and energy is comprised of nonphysical subatomic particles that never physically interact. Because the mind and it's perception operate by the linear paradigm of material form and 'content' (specifics and details), it is presumed that is all there is to existence, overlooking the nonlinear paradigm of formless 'context' (meaning and significance).



Perception is limited, and unaided, it is prone to mistake "appearances" for 'essence', and assumes that "different" implies "separate". At best, it can only approximate. Because perception cannot register all there is to existence, it is not a reliable tool to go by, as to what our existence is limited to. An illusionist's act is about performing tricks that get past the audience's perception, which do not detect how they were achieved. Sensory information only goes so far. This is why the mind cannot conceive of or comprehend 'Reality', as is, which is ineffable. We cannot know Reality by way of the intellect, but what we intend it to mean is 'awareness and understanding without preconceived notions'.

Answer 4

Generally, accurately and clearly defining your terms will be helpful. So, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality



Kindly note that Perception and Reality as explained by the Wikipedia contributors are generally defined as atom-based, physicality-based. If you are not including "God" as an hypothesis, perhaps because atoms are difficult instruments for proving God, then your task is comparatively easy. "Reality" is what may be measured by a group of people, using similar techniques, over time and space: essentially "science and technology." This level of epistemology as realism measures or evaluates "Perception," which may include variables that modify sense data. Completely accurate physical perception is a goal of realism-as-science.



Related: "The Self-Actualizing Cosmos," "The Self-Aware Universe," The Mindful Universe," "A Philosophy of Universality," "The Answer You're Looking for Is inside You."

Answer 5

Mirage When you drive along the road in some lights it appears in the distance there is water across the road but your brain knows it is not true . You have perception but your mind brings in reason

Answer 6

On the sense-datum theory, a perceptual experience in which something appears F to one consists in a relation of perceptual awareness to something which is actually F (Level 1). So whenever a subject has a sensory experience, there is something of which they are perceptually aware. This relational conception of experience is sometimes called an “act-object” conception, since it posits a distinction between the mental act of sensing, and the object which is sensed.



A sense-datum theorist calls the object of an experience a sense-datum. We can thus re-formulate the Phenomenal Principle espoused by the sense-datum theorists in these terms:



If there sensibly appears to a subject to be something which possesses a particular sensible quality F then there is something—a sense-datum—of which the subject is directly aware which does possess that sensible quality.



For the sense-datum theorist, the character of an experience is somehow explained (at least in part) by the sensible qualities of the sense-datum one is aware of. (Level 2). Consider an experience which one would describe in terms of seeing a snow covered churchyard for what it is. We can isolate certain aspects of the phenomenal character of such an experience, such as the appearance of whiteness to one. We want a theory of experience to explain such aspects. The sense-datum theorist will claim that things appearing white to you consists in your perceptual awareness of a white sense-datum. The character of your experience is explained by an actual instance of whiteness manifesting itself in experience.



Now ultimately the sense-datum theory opposes our ordinary conception of experience, but it doesn’t as we have it so far. For at the moment we have no opposition between sense-data and ordinary objects. Suppose that one has an experience of a churchyard as described above, and so one is perceptually aware of a white sense-datum. Now suppose one’s experience is veridical. Well, for all we’ve said, the sense-datum one is aware of could be an ordinary bit of mind-independent reality: some white snow. This is not ruled out, for a sense-datum is just whatever it is that one is aware of in a perceptual experience which instantiates the sensible qualities which characterize the phenomenology of one’s experience. All we know about sense-data is that they must satisfy two conditions:



sense-data are objects of direct awareness; and

sense-data bear sensible qualities.

Answer 7

What you see is what you get, or not.