A common mental model is to see perception as passive -- light hits the retina, generates a signal that hits the brain, boom, you "perceive" an image. Just like image data getting fed into a convnet. In reality, perception is an active skill that has to be learned.
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Very true.
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Baby iguana begs to differ
“On the Galapagos Islands, young marine iguana must escape an onslaught of deadly racer snakes the moment they hatch from the sand”https://youtu.be/B3OjfK0t1XM Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Can you perceive something you don’t know or never have seen before? Are you using perceive to mean see and understand or to mean to notice?
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Picture teaching a human child to talk. What sounds they mimic and how we reinforce and reward them with praise when they mimic correctly. Those associations are very careful taught, and retaught.
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I remember walking along a snow covered street when an antique street lamp ahead of me vanished. I had been daydreaming and was startled. I realized there was asymmetric gap in the antique lamps and for a split second my brain filled in and then erased the missing lamp.
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For all is but a woven web of guesses
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Yeah I like this one.
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Cross-cultural color perception is interesting, seems to be heavily linguistic-based. Frequency illusion seems to support this too:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion …
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