Is what we see really reality, or an imaginative perception?
The eye contains one of the most powerful and vital senses: vision. The process to see is numerous amount of steps. It all starts out with the light wave entering the eye. The part of the eye that the light wave goes through first is the pupil, which is the little hole in our eye. The light then goes through the lens and is inverted and sent to the layer in the back of the eye called the retina. The retina is where transduction occurs. Transduction is the process of changing an outside stimulus into a neural message. The first layer of the retina is contains the rods and cones, which are very important to the transduction. The rods control black and white light while the cones control all other colors or hues. After the rods and cones are the bipolar cells, which just act as a connection of the photoreceptors (rods and cones) and the ganglion cells. The ganglion cells have axons that connect and make up the optic nerve. The optic nerve is a cranial nerve then sends the information up into the brain. The message is now sent to the thalamus, where it is distributed to the visual cortex in the occipital lobe. From there, the perception is developed and then sent back down to the eye.
The development of perception is very complexity in nature, but naturally doing it and the thought of a person constantly doing it is outstanding. But the question is...is what we see really reality, or just an imaginative perception? The answer: unknown. Every person sees things in a different light, per say, but whether those things are legit reality or ambiguous figures are unknown. Even the thought of looking at someone, if that is really what they look like or are they just a blob. Studies have shown that someone can create an image of something because they want to see it, not necessarily meaning its actually concrete there. People are very insistent on the idea that there is something there when there isn't. For example, after a person watches a scary movie then assume that the masked murderer is going to jump out behind every turn in their house and sometimes they look too deep into something and think its him when it could be just a shadow, lamp etc. Also, like when someone looks at an ambiguous image of a celebrity from a weird angle that is left to interpretation of who it really is. Not everyone will have the same interpretation as everyone else, but merely just the fact that people perceive things differently then other. Our minds are at a different path and sequence then the minds of other people.
It also depends on the lighting as well. Color constancy is the constancy that an image is always the same color but the intensity of the brightness of where the image is in an distort things a little bit. For example, someone with auburn hair can look like they have bright red hair in the light, but brown hair in the dark. Intensities of things can trick us and throw off our perceptions sometimes, but it doesn't mean that we're 100% wrong. Visual perceptions are very vague and hard to understand, but the reality to it is that there is something out there, whether we see it or not its not just like a blank sheet of paper, its an entire world of interpretation.
The development of perception is very complexity in nature, but naturally doing it and the thought of a person constantly doing it is outstanding. But the question is...is what we see really reality, or just an imaginative perception? The answer: unknown. Every person sees things in a different light, per say, but whether those things are legit reality or ambiguous figures are unknown. Even the thought of looking at someone, if that is really what they look like or are they just a blob. Studies have shown that someone can create an image of something because they want to see it, not necessarily meaning its actually concrete there. People are very insistent on the idea that there is something there when there isn't. For example, after a person watches a scary movie then assume that the masked murderer is going to jump out behind every turn in their house and sometimes they look too deep into something and think its him when it could be just a shadow, lamp etc. Also, like when someone looks at an ambiguous image of a celebrity from a weird angle that is left to interpretation of who it really is. Not everyone will have the same interpretation as everyone else, but merely just the fact that people perceive things differently then other. Our minds are at a different path and sequence then the minds of other people.
It also depends on the lighting as well. Color constancy is the constancy that an image is always the same color but the intensity of the brightness of where the image is in an distort things a little bit. For example, someone with auburn hair can look like they have bright red hair in the light, but brown hair in the dark. Intensities of things can trick us and throw off our perceptions sometimes, but it doesn't mean that we're 100% wrong. Visual perceptions are very vague and hard to understand, but the reality to it is that there is something out there, whether we see it or not its not just like a blank sheet of paper, its an entire world of interpretation.