Perception is one topic that fascinates me and makes me enter into one such conversation anytime.What is it?
We ,based on our experience and the facts known to us perceive things in a supposedly different way from others.Each object or person consists of innumerable facts related to them.We know only certain facts, so we happen to be far away from reality.Only when we know most of the important facts about a person,thing or a situation we are closer to reality.
Person "X" may be liked by me but not necessarily by my best friend or close relative. The reason can be that I may know some nice facts about "X" which they may not know.We can safely say here that there is nothing like "Good person" and "Bad person"....It is PERCEPTION .What is "Good" or a "Good person" to you may not be that good to me.
A famous policy scientist,Yehezkel Dror talks about Subjective image of reality [SIR] and objective reality [OR]. SIR according to him is the image which each individual has, based on his knowledge i.e.,set of facts.OR is the real picture based on the infinite number of facts.In order to make better policies a policy scientist should be as close as possible to the OR,....i.e.,he should collect all the facts,information possible about a particular problem so that we perceive things in a proper way.Only if an official knows that a certain bridge is weakened will he take effective steps. If his set of facts do not provide him with the information, if he does not know that the bridge is weakened,then he will not be able to repair the bridge.
Though I have not read much books on philosophy,I feel that this also in a way talks about perception.This always talks about detachment and a balanced view of things which prompts me to use the term "Balanced Perception".That is, take things evenly without attaching any importance to a particular piece or thing.
We ,based on our experience and the facts known to us perceive things in a supposedly different way from others.Each object or person consists of innumerable facts related to them.We know only certain facts, so we happen to be far away from reality.Only when we know most of the important facts about a person,thing or a situation we are closer to reality.
Person "X" may be liked by me but not necessarily by my best friend or close relative. The reason can be that I may know some nice facts about "X" which they may not know.We can safely say here that there is nothing like "Good person" and "Bad person"....It is PERCEPTION .What is "Good" or a "Good person" to you may not be that good to me.
A famous policy scientist,Yehezkel Dror talks about Subjective image of reality [SIR] and objective reality [OR]. SIR according to him is the image which each individual has, based on his knowledge i.e.,set of facts.OR is the real picture based on the infinite number of facts.In order to make better policies a policy scientist should be as close as possible to the OR,....i.e.,he should collect all the facts,information possible about a particular problem so that we perceive things in a proper way.Only if an official knows that a certain bridge is weakened will he take effective steps. If his set of facts do not provide him with the information, if he does not know that the bridge is weakened,then he will not be able to repair the bridge.
Though I have not read much books on philosophy,I feel that this also in a way talks about perception.This always talks about detachment and a balanced view of things which prompts me to use the term "Balanced Perception".That is, take things evenly without attaching any importance to a particular piece or thing.
2 comments:
hello Srividya,
nice post.. have you watched the movie "Matrix".. very similar in concept to what you have said..
-arun
Hi,
Thank you for the comment...but I have not watched the movie.
Srividya
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