Given simply the transmissions along the optic nerve from the light entering the eye, one would not be able to reconstruct the three-dimensionality, or the distance, or the detail of the bark — attributes that we perceive instantly.
Mr. Cohen said his tool would produce photos that were closer to the reality that we perceive than a photograph.
"We think we receive all that we perceive but in fact we actually give the sky its colour.
Turrell likens the spare interior to Plato's cave, in which "we realize that we perceive the outside reality incompletely.
To a nonphilosophical friend Berkeley wrote, "I question not the existence of anything that we perceive by our senses".
"FREE! gives us such an emotional charge that we perceive what is being offered as immensely more valuable than it really is," Ariely writes.
The confused battle scene that we perceive in our bewilderment, He perceives in His omniscience as two opposing armies in an orderly array".
It seems as though we as a nation are cuddling up and hiding from a world that we perceive as a threat to our wealth and privileges.
He was becoming less interested in what we perceive or how we perceive than in the very wonder that we perceive at all.
Although the sense that we perceive time as accelerating as we age is very common, it is hard to prove experimentally.
We react to faces that we perceive as angry faster than to "happy" faces because they contain a greater possibility of danger.
