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Perception as a (Sometimes Non)Helping Hand (Intro
-What is perception?…
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Thesis: We do not perceive reality as it is, at least not all of it. Instead, our perceptions are matched with our fitness and therefore is altered to ensure survival. As seen in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and A Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard. #
Nash is obviously a gifted individual, in the level that can't be taught without some kind of natural gift #
a third of the brain deals with visual perception-not stimulus(that's only the eye) so what does that part of the brain need to perceive? #
therefore, Alice must change her mindset and knowledge and conform to Wonderland culture if she wants to accomplish anything#
Alice in Wonderland was quite different of it's time because Carroll made it a complete rejection Victorian ideals of logical children, social deviancy as madness, and the domestic woman #
Alice strives to be mature and logical. Everything she has learned have been based the Victorian strict and narrow mindset #
She then enters Wonderland, where everything contradicts what she has learned. It goes to the extent that her journey is hindered everything she uses her logic and reasoning #
Carroll her world and language meaningless with the uses of puns, double meanings, and riddles. this causes her to question everything she knew#
Hoffman running several experiments simulations to test perception of reality and fitness (an organism’s ability to survive), every time through evolution only fitness remained. Did this happen to us? #
Perception can be compared to desktop interface-evolution giving us hacks and shortcuts we need to survive (ex: Australian jewel beetle and mating)
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intelligent mind and creativity that drove him to success also enabled his hallucinations. Easy to believe the thoughts coming from his schizophrenia because it came the same way as his ideas. willing to believe #
Is need for human interaction and recognition is what drove him to create these companions. He enters a world where he is important. #
because he naturally operates in a higher plane of understanding, made him isolated and impersonal "The truth is, I don't like people very much. And they don't much like me" #
ultimately in the end, his genius also got him back to the real world. his sight for patterns is how he noticed the imagined girl never aged-become foundation in which he built to discern reality and fantasy #
A Beautiful Mind gives us a chance to gaze into the point of view of someone with schizophrenia. Experience the doubt and the confusion-as well as seeing how it effects all aspects of their life #
people assign too many meanings to Alice in Wonderland-even though none of them truly fit the story-story could just be meaningless #
the environment can have an impact on us-how can it not be reality (also we see the same thing so none of us reconstruct reality) #
A Beautiful Mind is too Hollywoodized. can't learn from the sick person's perspective if the movie isn't realistic #
Just because your environment isn't real doesn't it doesn't need to be taken seriously, our perception shows the important stuff to ensure survival. Also the same stimulus triggers the same sense which reconstructs the same thing in all our minds #
If the movie was realistic, it would probably lose the jarring effect it has on the viewers. The movie would fail to achieve its goal of pulling out empathy. The viewers need the dramatic to understand #
Carroll shows that a story doesn't have to be rationalized or have some moral theme behind. Wonderland is full of nonsense, and it's really up to the eye of the beholder #