Seeing Things Cole Summary

In the article “Seeing Things”, the author called Cole, professor of journalism at University of South California, claims that what we perceive from our surrounding world is not always accurate. To clarify, human eyes cannot counter to any electromagnetic vibrations; they respond only to electromagnetic waves between 0.00007 and 0.00004 of a centimeter long (Cole,2002). I, totally, agree with that because there are some matters that we can absorb by our human eyes. Bacteria, for example, are too tiny to be absorbable by the human eyes. We have to use a microscope to see them; this happens because its electromagnetic vibrations are not between the measurements that human eyes can perceive them. In addition, she believes that the dimension that
It’s an object that has two arms and a base that holds the arms. People perceive it as a triangle because they see it from a dimension that made it looks like a triangle. In addition, we, as humans, see the moon as a disk (Cole, 2002); this could be lack of knowledge. However, this is not true because we see the moon from its front side, not as a ball, like how it looks. This reveals that the dimension from which we look at things determines its shape that we perceive. On the other hand, “reality means different things to different people”, according to the article. This is unconvincing to me because what is real is not different whatever your position or your knowledge. For example, the existence of the sun is real, no one can deny this. So that, the reality is unchangeable unless scientists discover or invent something that hinders its existence. In addition, Max Born, a physicist, assumes that the real things are the things that interest the person (Cole, 2002). There is no logic in his statement, as I believe. Assuming that I am not interested in chemistry, this means chemistry is not real. On the other hand, if I love video gaming, this means that the only thing that is real is video