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PERCEPTION

PERCEPTION. Ways of understanding or being aware of sensory information and reality Five senses, Sixth sense Physiological constraints (biology) Cognitive constraints (embodied) Illusions, role of memory, emotions, blind sight Limits of logical approaches

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PERCEPTION

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  1. PERCEPTION • Ways of understanding or being aware of sensory information and reality • Five senses, Sixth sense • Physiological constraints (biology) • Cognitive constraints (embodied) • Illusions, role of memory, emotions, blind sight • Limits of logical approaches • Neuroscience Explosion (FMRI , molecular biology, and computers

  2. WAYS TO DECIDE • Authority • Revelation • Instinct • Intuition • Reason • Psyche

  3. How Do We Know We KnowFeeling or Intellect • Water is wet • 2 + 2 = 4 • Capgras Syndrome • E=MxC Squared • Atoms • Quarks • Quantum Theory • God

  4. AUTHORITY • Parents • Roles (teacher, coach, religious leaders) • Laws • Uniforms and Social cues (norms) • Learned vs. instinctual

  5. REVELATION • Direct experience via spirit contact • Indirect experience through senses • Belief independent of natural phenomena • Is there a religion gene or instinct? • Has religion evolved? • Temporal lobe seizures (St Theresa) • Persinger’s deep brain stimulation

  6. INSTINCT • Built in or hard wired • Inherited • Not learned • Considered animalistic

  7. Intuition • Unconscious or preconscious • Effortless and fast • Adaptive based valuation, not precise • Association based, like a metaphor, • Automatic, not flexible • Practice (muscle memory) • Learned

  8. Reason • Conscious • Takes Effort • Slow • Rule based like logic • Flexible • Can be practiced but takes a long time • Can not reliably predict future as rules based on the past (stock market)

  9. PSYCHE • Psychodynamic (Freud, Jung, Adler, Klein etc) • Psychophysiologic (conditioning, aversion, hypnosis, CBT, addiction, etc) • Abnormalities of cognition or perception • Combinations

  10. FREE WILL • Determinism • Agency • Combination • Neuro-ethics and neuro-jurisprudence • RESPONSIBILITY

  11. Decision Defects • Delusion (hallucination) • Illusion ( perceptual constraints) • OCD (can’t be sure) • Decision influences (non conscious effects, loss aversion, relativity) • Wrong premise (bad information) • Wrong logic (faulty thinking) • Wrong guess (intuition fails) • Compulsion ( determined by instinct) • Misled

  12. DECISION MAKING • How do we know the basis of any given decision or conclusion? • Are decisions made consciously, unconsciously, both? • Can we change our minds? Value of rational discourse vs. appeal to un or preconscious? • Can we protect ourselves?

  13. Further Viewing Decisions • Daniel Kahnemannhttp://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=12301 • Jonah Lehrer Fora TV How we decide • Dan Arielyhttp://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html • Robert A Burton http://youtube.com/watch?v=QL12cd4d0ro4 • Robert Cialdini Http://bigthink.com/robertcialdini

  14. Themes • Worldview • Internal vs. External • Reductionism vs. Dualism vs Emergence • Consciousness, Constraints on Knowing • Strange or Wonderful Mathematics • Fundamental Weirdness of Matter, Space and Time • Feeling of Knowing • Implications for Discourse

  15. Science vs. Religion Debate Many Hours of challenging thought • Beyond Belief Series of Meetings on The Science Network • The Four Horsemen Google Videos • Templeton Foundation • Wright and Goldberg on Blogging heads • Kuhn Closer to Truth • Faraday Institute St Edmunds Cambridge • Clayton Clayton’s Emerging

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