Perception (week 1. 2nd day)

"Perception is the process by which organisms interpret and organize sensation to produce a meaningful experience of the world".

-the definition

While looking through the definition of perception, i found that sensation is just as involved as perception is to humans.

Sensation usually refers to the immediate, relatively unprocessed result of stimulation of sensory receptors in the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, or skin. Perception, in human ideology, better describes one's ultimate experience of the world and typically involves further processing of sensory input. In practice, sensation and perception are virtually impossible to separate, because they are part of one continuous process.

-"As a scientific enterprise, however, the investigation of has especially developed as part of the larger discipline of psychology. For the most part, psychology bypasses the questions about perceiving raised by philosophy in favour of problems that can be handled by its special methods. The remnants of such philosophical questions, however, do remain; researchers are still concerned, for example, with the relative contributions of innate and learned factors to the perceptual process."

-Peter Lindsay & Donald A. Norman: Human Information Processing: An Introduction to Psychology, 1977.

This aspect about perception gives me a different perspective about the concept of design, science, and especially life. Some of the best thinkers of our time, such as Einstein, have came up with their own idea of perception, but that definition apply to all of us? I think everyone has there own perspective about how perception works and how it works for them. For example, lets say a random painting viewed by a group may be visualized the same way but surely not perceived the same. One person viewing that painting may focus on different colors which make up the painting. Another may focus the different emotions going on in the painting. And another may not care for it at all. The world is perceived by the way we perceive it. That is why every individual person has a unique perception which is also unique to the world, maybe some greater than others. I believe, the ones who truly pursue these unique concepts and perceptions are artist and designers of our world. Which can be everyone in this class. That is why I surely believe that this class will help me open up more doors of perception in design.