About Reality, Sensation, Perception and Communication with Jürgen Kornmeier, PhD

What does the world really look like? What do we see of it? What do we perceive? And what can we talk about?

The natural sciences seek to understand the nature of the material world and the laws that govern it based on the information we collect with our senses. In this presentation, Dr Jürgen Kornmeier will use selected examples to illustrate that the information available to us about the world is very incomplete. Our perceptions depend not only on the sensory information available to us, but also very strongly on past experiences stored in our perceptual memory. Despite the limitations of the sensory input, we see much more than we can consciously perceive and describe in words.

Based on sensory information and scientific understanding, we are able to create impressive models of the world. They are associated with meaning and positive and negative aesthetic experiences, and they are also very successful, as the technical achievements on which they are founded significantly influence and facilitate our daily lives.

All these considerations suggest that we are accurately describing the world through our senses and information gathered through the sciences. However, there are good examples and arguments indicating that we do not yet understand very much about the ontological reality of the physical world.

A list of Dr Kornmeier's publications can be found on the IGPP website at https://igpp.de/en/about-us/te....

Find more details and biographical information at the Rhine Research Center website: https://www.rhineonline.org/ev....