Boston Globe technology reporter Hiawatha Bray is interviewed on WGBH's Greater Boston with Emily Rooney about CES 2008. For more go to www.greaterboston.org
this week i was railroaded in my work environment with the broad brush stroke called Perception Is Reality.
i could mount no defense against this statement.
so i'm surfing the net to see what others have written about the statement in order to combat this notion.
these sentences were found through a google search. the links to the pages are now dead....
Perception is reality - we see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe. If you want to perceive the truth, you have to look with and open mind...
Unfortunately 'perception is reality' is a very irrationalist belief that has become recently common in academic circles, particularly among members of ...
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Perception is defined as the act of perceiving, which is "to become aware of directly through any of the senses, especially sight or hearing." On the other hand, reality is defined as "the quality or state of being actual or true".
"A Japanese juggler performs some marvelous juggling feats with a boy. Lying on his back on the floor, he spins the boy with his feet and makes him turn numerous somersaults." Don't trust in the description of a film made in 1904. It's interesting anyway.