Cycle Of Human Development

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In the cycle of human development, there has been a discourse of whether sensations are part of the human brain J. J. C. Smart once published a book to put this discourse to rest but still there has been a heated debate amongst psychologist about this topic .This paper will explore how sensations and brain processes are related to the human development cycle of the mind as well as the cognitive and the environmental perception of the phenomenon. The Objection of Indiscernible identical object
A possible objection to the thesis proposal made by Smart that sensations are brain processes could be; no part of the brain is red, yet some sensations are red. Because by indiscernibility of identicals, two similar objects …show more content…

The more long experience causes the stimuli to compete for a given characteristic of the real object say shape or size. The explanation behind the theory is that a stimulus has to follow its dedicated individual neural path during the initial stages of visual processing thus the repetitive activity or great notion or the communication with adjoining active channels leads to a physiological imbalance which makes the perception to be altered. In the biological concept, the Mach bands and Grid illusions are real examples that are well explained. Lateral inhibitions of the retinal light in the receptive fields compete with the dark receptors for activity. Thus bands of increased brightness are seen when viewing each band at the edge of a color difference. When a receptor becomes adjacent active receptors are inhibited highlighting edges and as a result creating …show more content…

An illusion just like after images is evidence that people don't always see what they think they do. According to Smart, concrete terms and mental terms have different meanings, and the two do not represent the same logic. What people see is the experience that they have acquired over time, and when people report the experience, they find themselves communicating things that are nonexistent. But the experience is a brain process thus there is the possibility of the brain processing certain phenomena that are nonexistent. Just like the optical illusion the things seen may not be real, for instance, an object may appear smaller from a far away distance but larger when nearer. Visual illusions are brain process do are afterimages. Therefore Smarts theory can be used to explain the phenomena where images appear to mismatch the actual objects. The images can be said to be an impression that is created immediately to replace the actual characteristics of the object. In the same note after images are incorrect and do occur as a result of long time interactions with the particular