Breaking Down the Senses and Sense Perseption part1

Choose 1 sense (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell). CHoose 1 hour of your day and keep track of absolutely EVERYTHING you experience through that sense ONLY and record it on your blog.

3. Respond with a paragraph regarding your reading of Hilary Lawson's story about visual agnosia

4. Which of the 3 "Theories of Reality" do you most adhere to? Explain.

5. We are all very good at seeing only what we want to see. Can you give some examples of the way in which our BELIEFS, CULTURE, or MOOD affects the way we see things?

6. CURATE and article or video regarding ANY of the senses and sene perception. Try to find at least 2 knoweldge issues and post all to blog

Read the Sense Perception blog post http://ljatok13.posterous.com/perception-lesson 
and explore the links and multi-media. Answer the following questions (also located at the end of the blog post) 
1. CURATE an optical illusion (or more than 1) you find particularly interesting and post to your blog so we can share them. If you can explain how it works that would be great.

2. Choose 1 sense (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell). CHoose 1 hour of your day and keep track of absolutely EVERYTHING you experience through that sense ONLY and record it on your blog.

3. Respond with a paragraph regarding your reading of Hilary Lawson's story about visual agnosia

4. Which of the 3 "Theories of Reality" do you most adhere to? Explain.

5. We are all very good at seeing only what we want to see. Can you give some examples of the way in which our BELIEFS, CULTURE, or MOOD affects the way we see things?

6. CURATE and article or video regarding ANY of the senses and sene perception. Try to find at least 2 knoweldge issues and post all to blog.

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This imageis kind of cool. The dots are white, but if you look around, they turn black....... i think it has to do with the colors.......

For the sense, I chose Touch/feel:

Last weekend, I went hiking up in Haleakala national park for a good 15 hours.......it gave me a lot of time to think.... any ways, so I focused on what I was feeling, and it was really weird. My body had a hard time understanding what was going on. It was really cold because it's up high so it was around 40 degrees F, but the sun was shining so I was constantly being bonbarded by warm and cold at the same time. My body wasn't sure whether to sweat or shiver. Then I got a sunburn but my body didn't notice it untill we left because the cold was masking it even though it was a pretty bad burn.

The whole visual Agnosia isreally hard for me to rap my head around......... I don't quite understand how you could reconize your features, but not your face in the mirror.......... it doesn't really make any sense...... for some reason, it sounds a bit like alzheimer's. John's case sounds like a SyFy movie

 

Breaking Down the Senses and Sense Perseption part2

A. After watching and discussing these videos in class, CHOOSE to either write a paragraph or produce a vlog journal (video) describing your personal thoughts on what you have learned from them, and questions you may have. ***You may wish to divide your responses by "sense category" into 5 sections. Responses should be thorough and thoughtful. 

B. Create at least 1 question per sense to be used in our Socratic Seminar. All questions should be open-ended and open to various perspectives.

I really liked watching the videos about light, color and the senses, but I think it's too much thinking. I have this way of thinking about colors and light, that is disterbed by overthinking it. When I think of things like color, I have a genersly good/positive feeling, but when we go really in-depth into it, I kind of loose the good positive feeling..... i dont really know, it's weird. 

I liked hearing the one guy talk about  how humans almost soley rely on their eyes, even though it's not really your eyes that see, it's your brain. Your eyes pick up light and your brain morfs it into colors/pictures. This is why that tribe in Africa, saw colors differantly than westerners even if it was the same colors they were looking at. This is really cool. This supports the videa of the brain being the one who actually sees, because it is being influenced by their language , which language would have no efect if you were truly seeing only with your eyes. All this information about our sencses has me thinking about the movie limitless, like how we only use a small part of our brain. Maybe if we learned or traned ourselves to use our other sences more, we would be able to acces more of our brain power.

Smell: Why is smell the first sense we comprehened?

Hearing: How effective is hearing on our memory?

Tast: Why do most people like tast over their other sences?

Touch: Like the guy said in the video, Is there a way to be able to ignore or render extreme pain painless?

Seeing: How much of our world or the information we gather from our surroundings rely on seeing or evein just seeing color?

 

Sense Perception

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I love this kind of art! this plays on your eyes, What is reality? 

 

We are all very good at seeing only what we want to see. Can you give some examples of the way in which our BELIEFS, CULTURE, or MOOD affects the way we see things?

I think that things we call supernatual, like ghosts fit under this and how when you're alone in your room and it's dark, our minds can take regular everyday things and twist them, with the help of our imaginations, and tern them into something  dark and scary.

Infographs and why they're better.........

When it comes down to it, I think that info graphics are the way to go. They're like the new technology for PowerPoint, posters and presentations in general. They make displaying and sharing not to mention understanding, information much easier. When I think about it, it reminds me of a lot of what the IB program is trying to do. All through 9th and 10th grade, IB has been trying to combined ideas from different classes. Info graphics are a combination between art and (business, math, history etc.)

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I love this infograph because it's funny. The information is nothing special, infact this is really just someones opinion, but it keeps my interest because it is colorful, funny, and differant.

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This one is similar to the last. This has information about "Geeks" and how they evolved. It looks at trends throughout history. This inforgraph is funny. The different geeks have different drawings. It is laid out to resemble an evolutionary tree.

Wolfram Alpha

Students were asked to Play around with all the knowledge engines we discussed and write about their experiences, as well as commenting on related knowledge issues, such as the implications of knowledge when using these technologies.

I played around with Wolfram Alpha.

I asked things about topics ranging from scientific research like Cell membrane function to childhood tv shows like the winx club. All together, it didn’t give me everything I wanted to know, but it gave me basic info that would have taken me a lot of time and research to find on Google. I do like the idea of these sorts of databases.  Just think what it would be like if the whole world worked on one database and put all their knowledge into it AND made it completely free to access. THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!

Liar Liar Cheat

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The point of this exercise was to examine the nature, extent, acceptability of various kinds of deception. 

1.      Which cards did your group find easiest to place? Which did you find most difficult?

We found that the worst things were the easiest things to place while the more obscure situation based were hardest to place.

2.      How similar or different was your order from that of other groups? Were there any surprises?

Almost all the groups had the really bad ones like lying under oath as the worst but everything in between differed per group.

3.      Were there cases where you'd need more information about the context before placing it?

Yes! Almost every other question really needed like a paragraph of info behind it.

4.      How many of these forms of deception have you engaged in - be honest :)?

The little ones, loads of times, I believe that “white lies” are part of every day living, however, I can honestly say that thankfully, the more the lie is frowned upon, the less I’ve done it.

5.      How widespread do you think deception is in the population at large?

Like I said, lies build our social network. Lies are the concrete holding the building blocks of a relationship together. Most of the time, lies are told with good intentions, however, some of the worst catastrophes in history have been the results of good intentions.

6.      How do you define a "lie" - which of these cards would you classify as "not a lie" and why?

Santa is real= not a lie, mostly just because it doesn’t reach the standards by which I define a lie by.

I saw him murder her=I define a lie as something that has the potential to physically or mentally hurt someone or something. Which this does, this one lie could and probably will ruin lives.

7.      Under what circumstances, if any, is it acceptable to mislead or deceive other people? Should we tell the truth at any cost, or are other things, such as happiness, more important?

I think that in most situations, happiness is more important than always telling the truth, however if the sadness a person would feel later outweighs the happiness presently felt at the time, then I think the truth is in that person’s best interest in which I would then proceed to tell the truth. Though I think that safety comes first when dealing with things such as national security and I believe that everything should be done to keep everyone safe, within reason.

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