“Is sense perception an accurate way of knowing?”

since our childhood we are being taught that seeing is believing. But not every time everything we see is true. This is a very bitter truth, but not always what we see is wrong. To justify my points I will come up with certain examples that we see in our regular life. Not only what is, our senses include ears, skin, tongue, nose. But before coming to the examples for all, I will go with seeing.

 I will put up a picture infront of you.

After seeing these pictures, wont you agree to what I said. Seeing is not always believing. But seeing is believing, I say there is Taj Mahal in Agra, it is there. I say there is a tree at the corner that is because I saw it there, there was no illusion.

Today in our TOK class we saw a video, in which optical illusion and technology was used to create a image of a beautiful girl which wasn’t the real her, in real she was a ugly as a duck. She was made that way, although the real her was really ugly. Another video was of a handsome boy, who again using technology was made ugly. One concept, and totally different uses. Do you think what you see is true? Are you sure it is not illusions, but misconception. It is because the human psychology is such that it perceives what it sees. These sights then become our ideas, and where it comes from is our prior knowledge, we start claiming our sight as a fact.

Emotion, Reasoning and Knowledge

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class on 19th march, 2012
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Do you think the decisions taken by a person are governed by the rules of the country to which we belong? How would you compare such a situation in your country?

Freedom for different people means different things. We humans are identical in the properties we posses, but what our brains thinks makes us different.

For me freedom is is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person. But what if it is taken away from you? Spending the years of life would become impossible. But Iranians have accepted the things and now live their lives as slaves of government.

In our today’s TOK class we came across a very shocking but true news. We belong to a country where there in so restrictions to what you wear, where you go, with whom you go, irrespective of your gender. Having restrictions on these things was alright if it was 18^th century. But today the scenario is different, everybody wants his/her own space. Today parent’s restrictions are a burden, how can you bare them on you when they come from government? Who are they to decide whom to go with, what to wear? It was alright if it was same for the whole world, but when it is about a single country, and only some people have to bare them, their life becomes more difficult.

All the citizens are frustrated, but keep their voices inside their hearts, which is the only reason of their suffering. Iran is country which is highly disregarded due to its strict rules and regulations. “Since 1999, Iran has been listed by the U.S. State Department as a country of particular concern because of its disregard for religious freedom. Although the Iranian constitution lists Christianity as a “protected religion” that is due respect, Christians—along with other religious minorities—experience quite the opposite. Religious minorities in Iran report “government imprisonment, harassment, intimidation and discrimination based on their religious beliefs,” according to State’s International Religious Freedom Report, released in September. Since June 2010, “more than 250 Christians have been arbitrarily arrested,” USCIRF adds….

Religious freedom is the birthright of every man and woman. Yet more than 60 years after nations around the world affirmed this truth, too few governments around the world acknowledge it. And far too many people never have enjoyed it.”

Lesson on perception

What is TOK?
Theory of knowledge. In the very first class of our TOK we came across a very good concept Perception. As we began our class, we started with the introduction of TOK, now everybody had different perceptions about the subject. In this large world different people think differently and that is what perception is. Perception is what somebody thinks on a specific issue or any subject.

So to understand what it is, we started with an activity in our class. We determined 5 good and 5 bad qualities by which we judge any person. This was an group activity. Then we wrote our classmates name in front of every quality, though it wasn't disclosed which quality belonged to whom and who thinks so, but no. of good's and bad's were written in front of each person's name. this is how we came to know that how every person perceived every person differently.