Lamson Library: Metaliteracy: Trusting Your Senses?

Trusting Your Senses:

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Brainstorm

Green Needle

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Trusting Your Senses: Sight

Dunn, Michael. How reliable is the knowledge provided by our senses? (10th May 2013). https://theoryofknowledge.net

TED Talk

"...our brains only see what they want to see – conditioned by evolutionary instincts of survival – no matter what our reason tries to impose on our minds. In other words, what we see may not match up to reality at all..." - Beau Lotto

Source: Lotto, B. (2009). Optical illusions show how we see [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/beau_lotto_optical_illusions_show_how_we_see/detailse:

You probably won't succeed, but try to count the number of times the players in white pass the ball.

Source: Simons, D. J. (2010, Apr. 28) The monkey business illusion. [Video File] Retrieved from: https://youtu.be/IGQmdoK_ZfY

Seeing the World as It Isn't

Source: Simons, D. [TEDxUIUC] (2011, March 19) Seeing the world as it isn't. [Video File] Retrieved: https://youtu.be/9Il_D3Xt9W0

Dan Ariely -- Are We in Control of Our Own Decisions?

Source: Ariely, D. (2009, May 19) Are we in control of our own decisions? [Video file] Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/embed/9X68dm92HVI

Trusting Your Senses:

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Trusting Your Senses: Sight

You probably won't succeed, but try to count the number of times the players in white pass the ball.

Seeing the World as It Isn't

Dan Ariely -- Are We in Control of Our Own Decisions?