Zan Boag: Philosophers and the lay person have very different ideas of what perception means. What does it mean to philosophers and how do we take in information from the outside world?
Susanna Siegel: As lay people we count three different things as perception. First, there’s sensory perception: what we see, hear, touch, feel and smell, either consciously or unconsciously.
A second kind of perception is your overall take on a situation – your personal vision. An optimist perceives thing...
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