Continuing today’s philosophical musings –

“Study reveals individual neurons in the human brain are triggered by the subject’s conscious perception, rather than by the visual stimulus.” (Redorbit).

Through the examination of morphed faces, researchers concluded that only in the act of recognition did neurons actually fire. Subjective perception rather than objective visual stimulus caused the firing.

Professor Rodrigo Quiroga at the University of Leicester then went on to say, “In a sense, the interpretation of this result goes way back to British Empiricism and even to Aristotle. As Aristotle put it, we create images of the external world and use these images rather than the sensory stimulus itself for our thoughts. These neurons encode exactly that.”

Subjective perception… and the power of worldview and our mental models of the world around us.

Ever so subtly the chains that bind

Wrap us in their siren embrace.

And though I see you,

I see you as I see you –
Not as you really are… and rarely your true face.