Week 2. Comments about "Visions of Vision" by Richard L. Gregory.

Alternatively, Richard L. Gregory's "Visions of Vision" discusses sight through the use of more scientific facts and observations. It talks a lot about how we tend to see what are seems fits best. We can predict what a cloud looks like, what objects stars can form. The text explains how my mind relates shapes and patterns to real objects. Almost any normal person should be able to do this. Our understanding of objects actions and the surroundings is what we call perception.

This reading really relates to the lecture on closure, on how the mind tends make a picture from patterns and shapes. The reading says that essentially our eyes works like a camera, but it is not as shallow. A camera accurately records the images it is exposed to and is able to reproduce it to a reason quality each time. Our minds can do this, but it is definitely subject to distortion. We can see that patterns and ultimately see things a camera cannot pick up. For example, our brain is able to understand a cartoon drawing of a person almost immediately, whereas a real picture and the drawing will hardly even match up. We have formulated our conclusion on the image we saw and hence formed closure.

Additionally, optical illusions trick people into thinking its more than one thing. Our brain analyses at the illusion one way and recognizes a pattern and formulates a hypothesis. Then we pick up another set of patterns and see another perspective. And then we get confused and our brain cannot make a decision to what the image is. So, is it a rabbit or a duck?

This reading supported my understandings of predictions of patterns in pictures. Generally from what I have read and what people have told me, I had already made up my mind that we form closure when we see a sort of pattern in a picture. This reading was slightly useful in backing up my ideas and hypothesizes I had prior.