Our Perspective of the World

Our Perspective of the World

Truth, Deception, Difference of Opinion, and Bias or Perception.

Perspective is based on all the information our senses collect, have seen, heard, or otherwise collected and interpreted throughout our life. One's perspective can be thought of as the glasses prescription they see the world with. This can range from the rare unbiased clear lensed type to a pair of kaleidoscope glasses.  It all depends on what you experiences have been in life. Our past can easily be seen to determine our actions.  Through understanding we grow.

Senses Processing Memory Output Model of a Human

Perception is you current view of something given your Perspective.  You can think of perspective as your memory being added in with the input, setting the scene.  Perspective also includes the position and any other context.  In the figure above the number of items they see depends on which side they are nearest. The purpose of this model to the right is to describe how and why we see the same things differently. The box labeled S represents our senses, if a  person is color blind for example. The box labeled B is the brain processing the input from the senses in the presence of the past experiences, represented by the box M. The box labeled O represents the output or communication, and contains speech and other forms of communication.

Our paradigm of life is based entirely on our prior experiences,i.e. Perspective being our Senses, Brain, Memory, and Output.  So any misinformation or missing information in a persons past experiences, a persons environment, even the sequence of exposure to experiences has an impact.  So having a broad unbiased experience in life is key to having a unbiased view of the world.  For example, post 9/11/2001 the United States vilified the Muslim people.  But as many US citizens had never met a Muslim what they saw on the news was 100% of their exposure.  So to know only the memories of 9/11, it is reasonable to have a biased view.  But how we responded to that event came from bias and fear.

In the human fear response there are over 20 hormones released to prepare the body for fight or flight.   The effect is to multiply the processing in the system by a huge gain, or equivalently  lowering response thresholds making our response all on or off, fight or flight.  The result is over reaction.  

Now take two parties interacting together. If they truly understand each other, fear will never come in.  But if their knowledge of one another is limited, then fear can come into play. As you can see the system is a loop with the output of one person or group feeding the second person or group.  The output of the second feeds the input to the first.  As is easily seen if the gain through the loop is greater than one, the system will blow up, i.e., go unstable. This is what happens in a PA system when the mic and speaker get to close.  When one part of the system becomes afraid, the other must compensate, else the system will blow up.

So given this model we can see how a person who grew up with a different experience would see and react differently.  And that full knowledge removes unknowns and fear, therefore leading to a more stable relationship.  Also bias is of concern as bias of an input will accumulate in ones memory until it turns the perception toward one direction, such that regardless of the other's input it is interpreted in the direction of the bias.

This bias accumulation, or incomplete  or inaccurate communication can be seen in any number of places in todays world.

• In Marriages where spouses do not talk.  Their missed expectations has added up to the point of division and destroyed trust effectively destroying the marriage.
• Political parties have not communicated, and are driven by fear of an uneducated but vocal voter.  They dig their heels in and make a good show, for their supporters.
• Some politicians seems to have the policy that they are God and know better than others. Social Justice groups resort to social terrorism, ex Occupy. Groups like this may have noble intention. But their aggressive in your face techniques, ignore others in their zeal to make their views truth.
• The freemasons and other religious political secret groups.  These groups have taken a limited set of scripture and ignored all that condemns their actions, like intentional sin of testing(deception) and judging (rejecting), which are inequity.  Not to mention the second commandment. 
• Our vilification of the Muslims post 9/11. Most did not know Muslims but based on the experience we had we were easily swayed to believe they were more like our visions from 9/11 than not.
• In our voter political military media system has bias due to secrecy in government and ratings driven programming.