What is wrong with people, for instance, who cannot perceive reality or whose perception is distorted?

Answer 1

We do not usually disagree on things that are settled with a calculator or a ruler. We disagree about things that go beyond our abilities to measure. Religion and matters of faith. Morality; good and evil. What is and is not common sense. So, in matters like these who's perception should we use as an authority?

Answer 2

Their perception isn't distorted unless there's something in their eye. Reality is what it is. Nobody's gonna get blamed for 'distorted perception'. What's wrong with certain people are their actions against a country's basic laws.

Answer 3

Each of us is conditioned into a defensive ego identity. These subconscious beliefs about self and the world, are developed during early childhood and subsequently control perception, feelings, thoughts and behavior.

Answer 4

Everybody perceives reality, there is different points of views on the way we perceive reality. There is no right way just different ways. Leo R

Answer 5

People like that are obviously fµcked up. And, if they're fµcked up to the point that they represent a clear and present danger to themselves or others, society puts them in mental institutions and does what it can to help them get better.

Doug

Answer 6

Attention is living; inattention is dying.
The attentive never stop; the inattentive are dead already.
Buddha
Dhammapada , 21, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, tr.

Unawareness is the root of all evil.
- Unknown Egyptian Monk

Answer 7

Perception is a dynamic conflict between the attempts of an outer world to impose an actuality on us and our efforts to transform this actuality into a self-centered perspective. Perception is a confrontation between an inward directed vector of external reality compelling awareness and an outward-directed vector of physiological, cultural, and psychological transformation. Where these vectors clash, where they balance each other, is what we perceive. This in

To begin with, initially assume a reality outside our minds and bodies containing potentials and dispositions. Any aspect of this realm with the power to stimulate our senses (for example, sounds, heat, color, motion) may be called a determinable.

The determinable tries to become determinate or manifest as stimuli that strike our sensory receptors through a medium, as sound waves are carried by an atmosphere, or heat by a solid. What is a stimulus and what is a carrier or medium varies from sensation to sensation. Stimuli and carriers may be interchanged from one instant to another, the relative role depending on the perceptual focus and the determinable. The atmosphere may carry one stimulus and then generate stimuli itself (such as wind); the movement of a solid body may be stimulus to the eye, then the body itself may carry heat to our touch.

Once a stimulus is carried from the determinable to our sensory receptors, it then is altered and interpreted electrically by the body's neurological system. Complex neural paths transmit the result from the receptors to somewhere in the brain. Let me call the resulting deposit in the brain the perceptible, and the neurological transmission system between receptors and perceptible the physiological medium.

Clearly what is directed toward us as a stimulus may differ from what is received as a perceptible. The external medium may alter the stimulus (as water does sound), or there may be no medium present to convey it (voices cannot be heard through a vacuum). Moreover, what is transmitted to our sensory receptors cannot be carried with fidelity to the brain. We can receive only a limited range of sounds, smells, and radiant energy; and what is within receivable range is altered physically in transmission to the brain. Thus, for example, the impulse frequency conveyed from the basilar membrane of the cochlea in the inner ear is not the same frequency as that of the impinging sound.

Animals clearly differ in their limitations for physiologically transmitting stimuli carried to their receptors. Each selectively interprets external reality physiologically within its own sensory sphere. There is a sensory sphere for us, a different one for dogs, another for cats, and so on. The fact that we have developed tools for extending our receptors (x-rays for example), and thus our sensory-sphere, does not alter the biological fact that the everyday external world we know through our perceptibles is but a transformation of stimuli of external reality.

The two different media which carry stimuli from the determinable to the brain. The movement from stimulus (the determinable) to medium to receptors to neural transmission to perceptible is a chain with each, event" in the chain being necessary but not sufficient for the one following it. The nature of this transformal chain and the existence of different sensory spheres for each animal argue against many varieties of realism and for some kind of dualism or perspectivism. Various forms of direct realism, such as naive realism--the view that there is what we sense--are untenable. What reaches our brain is not directly what is out there in its totality, although the perceptibles may be more or less patterned after external reality or comprise aspects or facets of realities as a landscape painting more or less copies the real terrain.

Answer 8

that depends on who you ask! The mind can only accept what it understands...

Your reality is what you make it.

Answer 9

people see things different because they are them. it's what make people different just like we all have different dna