" What I am to You, is not what You mean to Me "

I really enjoyed the discussion of perception and viewing an object, such as an apple, from different perspectives. It was very interesting thinking of properties missed by our senses which may be limited in comparison to senses of another organism. Some of these properties included texture and smell which may be distinct to us as human, and even person to person because some may have a more developed taste and others more developed sense of smell. However, none of these perceptions match that of the apple's perception, which may be the only true way to determine the reality of the apple because without it our perspective will remain objective, merely speculating from our experience the existence of the apple, but not its complete existence.

These apple discussions lead the class to talking about personalities and our social circles in which we view the properties of our friends. This is a great use of how realism could argue the of use perspectives to represent to differences in our perceptions of our loved ones and its impact on their reality and ours. We have all been asked to describe a person to another and possibly discussed later someone would not use the same description of the individual. Here constructivism plays the role, I think, because we use our perspective to construct our perceptions and knowledge of our social lives. We then use this knowledge to gage our relationship with people and determine its positive or negative impacts on our lives, our reality. In this case, different from apples, we may ask the individual about themselves, however their own view on their personality could still find disagreement of our experience with them and our senses.

(The title of this posting is from the Damien Rice song "Volcano")