Sense Organ
A sense organ is any collection of cells which serve to receive sensory information from the environment either external or internal to a particular organism. That sensory information is t...
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Perception
Perception refers to how the brain organizes and interprets sensory information. Until fairly recently, perception was considered by the school of psychology called behaviorism to be largel...
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Perception
Perception is a creation of the brain that goes beyond the input of sense organs. Sense organs detect changes in the environment, and transmit the information as nerve impulses or action po...
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Perception, Contemporary Views
Philosophical accounts of perception aim to give a coherent and systematic account of the nature of our sensory experiences. Philosophical accounts differ from scientifi...
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Perception
The term perception may be used generally for mental apprehension, but in philosophy it is now normally restricted to sense perception—to the discovery, by means of the senses, of th...
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The biggest difficulty I ended up having with this reading was being able to look at it philosophically. So rather than cause myself undue headache, I read it as myself, a person who has read a lot of...
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