Most quality metrics measure variation in physical image properties only (e.g., pixel deviation, image intensity, contrast), without consideration for the impact of those properties on perception and/or decision.
These similarities suggest that the physiological properties of sound perception have been conserved as a result of predatory pressures imposed by insectivorous bats.
to assess the psychometric properties of the Perceptions of Empowerment in Midwifery Scale (PEMS) on a sample of New Zealand midwives.
There does not seem any possible way of overcoming this ignorance, since the very nature of physical reasoning allows only the most abstract inferences, and only the most abstract properties of our perceptions can be regarded as having objective validity.
We study empowerment, an information-theoretic utility function which is universal in the sense that it is independent from a specific external task and derives solely from the properties of the perception-action loop of an organism or agent and its interaction with the environment.
But if we then assume that it is an essential property of visual perception to see, visual perception must be able to function as its own object, as otherwise there might be no other object to be seen.
If the apparent properties of objects of perception are sometimes indeterminate, then the sense data involved would have to be metaphysically indeterminate — that is, they would have to actually lack definite characteristics.
If nonetheless they were properties of the experience, perception would be massively deceptive.
For in adopting this stance one would be committed to the epistemic claim that in the case of any conscious mental event that lacks the phenomenal properties of a genuine perception, the fact that it lacks the relevant phenomenal properties will be something that is knowable through introspection.
The temporal properties of this alternating perception have been intensively investigated for decades, yet the relationship between two fundamental properties - the sequence of percepts and the duration of each percept - remains largely unexplored.
