TED Talk: Should we Trust Our Senses?

A Commentary on Optical Illusions

I actually find this very interesting because you don’t see things like this every day.

I think I can relate this with epistemology because of what we have been learning, we have been learning about the philosophical currents, like empiricism that is with your own experience.

Responding to the second question: No I don’t think we can trust our senses because ( it is going to sound a little weird) but we may not know if it is an illusion

I think that this can affect my environment in a certain way because as I said before… Imagine that is an illusion and we didn’t know, that would harm me in a certain way, right?

Also a thing he said that caught a lot my attention, and I think is a little bit funny that was a question to do this, is about ecology, before he said that he said:

“ We are not defined by our central properties, by the bits that makes us up, we are defined by our environment and our interaction with our environment”

and that is what he meant, we are defined on how we interact with our environment in the daily life.

Relative, historical, and empirical means to me that it has to be in a certain way, that you can prove it.

REFERENCE

Lotto, B. Optical illusions show how we see. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/beau_lotto_optical_illusions_show_how_we_see?language=en