Perception involves the five senses but is not always objective or reliable due to biases, cultural influences, and limitations of the senses. Perception can be filtered through personal biases and lead to incorrect conclusions, as shown through optical illusions like the McGurk effect and Thatcher effect. While perception gives us information about the world, reason is considered a better way of knowing since it aims for objectivity by relying on facts and seeking agreement between different perspectives.

1. Prosecuting
Perception
By Karina, Andrew and Chino

2. What is Perception?
- Sense Perception
- 5 senses
- Dream argument

3. Why is perception not a significant
way of knowing
● Not easily observable
● observable data can create bias
● "objectivity" may mask "subjective"
● knowledge is grounded in observable "facts" and is
thus termed objective
● Example: Hallucinations

4. Questions
● What is the role of culture and language in the
perceptual process?
● Given the partially subjective nature of perception,
how can different knowers ever agree on what is
perceived?
● Do people with different cultural or linguistic
backgrounds live, in some sense, in different worlds?

5. Filtering
● Make our own biases
● Limits our knowledge

6. Senses
● Senses never fully develop e.g. bats
● Rely more on one sense than another
● Guide us to wrong conclusion

7. McGurk effect
- Perceptual phenomenon
- Auditory illusion

8. Thatcher effect

9. Better WOK -
REASON