“In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.” StatesDreamDifferencesCasesSpecialEssentialsPerceptionAbsenceWakingRelativeInputSensory Author:Stephen LaBerge
“We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.” ThinkingDifferentBlackDifferencesWhiteViewsColorPerceptionBlack And WhitePuritanDifferent ViewsBright Colors Author:Carlisle Floyd
“The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.” ArtDifferencesTeachEffectsStudentsPerceptionTrafficSubtletySmall Differences Author:Elliot W. Eisner
“We saw some resistance in the Wichita market until we partnered with EPIC. The increased awareness and information handed out regarding ethanol-enriched fuel made a huge difference in the public's perception.” MadeDifferencesSawsAwarenessInformationHugePerceptionResistanceFuelEpicEthanol Author:Mike Hoffman
“Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean, roughly, the view that many fundamentally different kinds of psychological mechanisms must be postulated in order to explain the facts of mental life. Faculty psychology takes seriously the apparent heterogeneity of the mental and is impressed by such prima facie differences as between, say, sensation and perception, volition and cognition, learning and remembering, or language and thought.” KindMeanDifferentFactsRememberOrderLanguageDifferencesViewsPsychologyCenturyTypePerceptionPsychologicalFacultySensationsMechanismDifferent KindsImpressedRespectableCognitionDubiousHanging AroundVolition Author:Jerry Fodor
“Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.” MayRealityAbleDifferencesPerceptionActualityPerception Is Reality Author:Bill Cowher
“The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.” MenLittlesReasonWholeAblePastCoursesCausesDifferencesAnimalEffectsPerceptionSensesPreparationPerceiveBeastMotivatedHumankindEvidentCause And EffectSurveysAnalogiesReciprocalFuture Life Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to seebut not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern--a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.” MadeMatterTodayDifferencesConsciousnessEssentialsComputerPerceptionCapacityIntelligentPatternsPerceiveWhat MattersIncapableSpontaneous Book:Visual Thinking Source: Visual Thinking
“Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.” PeopleDifferentDifferencesPerceptionShadowDifferent PeoplesSimilarityResemblance Book:Pale fire Source: Pale fire