Human Limitation Of Perception

The Ups and Downs of a Limited Perception

Henry David Thoreau once stated “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” With the limited perception, people tend to be uncertain at what they look at and see. While people like to be right, uncertainty is one of the most important factors of an individual’s growth. The human’s limitation and perception can be a hinder to an individual’s growth due to the lack of human senses. Neil deGrasse Tyson demonstrated how technology expands individuals limitation in his science essay “Coming to Our Senses,” and Pieter Beghal demonstrated the idea of how humans limitation can hinder the growth as a human in the painting “Landscape of the Fall of Icarus.” In contrast, humans limitation and perception

Emily Dickinson provokes this idea in her poem “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” and “Before I Got My Eyes Put Out.” Humans’ limited perception can hinder and benefit the growth and learning as a person.

To lead off, human’s limitation of perception can be a hinder to a human’s growth. In the science essay ”Coming to Our Senses” by Neil deGrasse Tyson, the author provides examples of how technology expands the human senses. The author states “If we want to know what’s out there then we require detectors other than the ones we are born with”(Tyson 45-46). The quote conveys how humans need technology to expand the humans senses. It is important to know when humans want to assure themselves if they are right, they use technology instead of there perception. This indicates how humans are not confident and unable to trust themselves with their own perspective. People see uncertainty as something bad and fears that society will look down upon them when they are wrong. Therefore people use technology and social media to assure their perspectives

According to the poem “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” by Emily Dickinson, the poet overcomes uncertainty and the darkness with her limitation of perception. In the poem, the poet states “Either the Darkness alters - Or something in the sight, Adjusts itself to Midnight - And Life steps almost straight”(Dickinson 16-20). The quote explains how Dickinson’s life is almost as “straight” when she overcome uncertainty and the fear of darkness by using her limited perception. This proves how humans limited perception helps with the humans growth by helping individuals face their own fears using their own perception. When humans are able to trust themselves and are be able to adjust their fear of uncertainty, humans can move onto their life without fearing what the society has to say to them. Once humans overcome the fear of uncertainty, there perspective is different and everyone would be able to accept each others perception. In addition, in the poem “Before I Got My Eyes Put Out” by Emily Dickinson, Dickinson conveys how humans limited perception can help a human’s learning. The poet states “So safer – guess – with just my soul, Open the window pane, Where other creatures put their eyes –Incautious – of the Sun –”(Dickinson 18-21). This quote conveys how before she got her eyes put out, she was uncertain how she was going to see the world with her limited perception. However,