Is seeing really believing?

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shylock

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The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon that demonstrates the visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound.
 
I've seen this video on several occasions, but I don't think it's necessarily a philosophical phenomenon. The connection that our brain makes between sight and sound is interesting but purely scientific. Still, the idea of perception is an interesting concept in itself. For all we know, everything we see could be completely false. We don't even know that things exist outside of our consciousness if it isn't being observed, which is something I've always found interesting.
 
Our eyes are terribly unreliable things. You know when people get into accidents and they say, "they came outta nowhere!"? Well, that's because our brain can effectively tell the eyes to delete something in view.

What we see isn't always necessarily the truth and I'm perfectly fine with that. For all I know what looks blue to me can be pink to you. Perception is a funny thing sometimes.
 
No seeing is not believing because your eyesight is based on relative perception, which is subjected to perspective and opinion. Our senses are not reliable, and certainly should not be used as a reliant tool for drawing truths.

The world around you is created by your perception of it, your ideals, your opinions and your morals. The reality that you see is created by your mind and how you perceive them. My reality is different then yours, and the only thing that we would be able to agree on is say the most smallest of the similar details - like whether that building we were talking about was an office building or not. We cannot decipher between relative facts, and universal knowledge, because it is all dependent on your perspective.

That's my opinion any ways.

Another idea to think about is colours - are they really there? Do some research into it and you'd be surprised to find that they really aren't.
 
What we see in our naked eye does not necessarily the truth. Sometimes we see what we want to see, this means that we omit whatever that is not pleasing to us. We desire things that is pleasing that we intentionally neglect the truth behind it. Just like what an old adage say " Let us not be fooled by its common place appearance, like so many things it not what is outside but what is inside that counts". So let us try to remember that things are not what they always seem.
 
What we see in our naked eye does not necessarily reflect the truth. Sometimes we see what we want to see, this means that we omit whatever that is not pleasing to us. We desire things that is pleasing that we intentionally neglect the truth behind it. Just like what an old adage in an old movie say " Do not be fooled by its common place appearance, like so many things it not what is outside but what is inside that counts". So let us try to remember that things are not what they always seem and try to see beyond the horizon.
 
I agree with all the replies; certainly, there seems to be a sense in the modern world that we should restrict our beliefs to what is close at hand and empirical: in other words, to what we can 'see'. However, I feel that this is a somewhat complacent position, given that over history we have come to realize again and again that things are not quite what they seem from a sensory perspective
 
I agree with all of these replies. Perception is a peculiar thing, for what is actually a sphere appears to us a disc, what is at a distance, appears to be smaller than it actually is. The reality that we see around us is a very relative matter. Besides, our brain system does not allow the processing of everything that we physically 'see' into reality. A lot is omitted out for various reasons. The best way to prove that what we see isn't always what Is..is through illusions.

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The picture above is very much static. You only think it's moving. :)
 
Our mind is sometimes playing us, but all we need is to focus. Yes for me, seeing is still believing because I am see is to believe person, but not on the video because sometimes videos trick us there is a lot difference in the video and seeing it personally. That is why I would rather see it personally than just seeing it into pictures or videos which can be manipulated.
 
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