Perception: An Illusory Clarification of a Dualist Perspective
The fact that we regularly incur perceptual illusions allows for several inferences to be made about both the nature of the mind as well as what we perceive to be reality. The word in itself is actually misleading; derived from the Latin capere, meaning "to take", the prefix per meaning "completely", this would suggest that perception is in fact our complete take when in actuality, this is not the case. I believe that the existence of perceptive illusions shows that the mind-body relationship is dualist, and that the trustworthiness of the senses alone cannot be complete. I believe this postulation, though not easily proven, is reinforced though an analysis of several views of cognitive psychologists, theoretical physicists, as well as various philosophers.
It is a readily-held belief among many cognitive psychologists that, as we move about in the world, we create our own internal model of how the world works.......
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