The other day in TOK class one of the student presentations was about perception, and it got me thinking. In years before now there was no such thing as 'editing' or 'photoshop' or 'graphic effects' and what people saw with their own eyes was real, and they believed it. But nowadays because these things are regular things used in everyday life, we never know if what we see if real or not.
How do we know that last picture of [insert someone] was real, or did someone use photoshop to edit what they looked like. Even in the news, how do we know that last video we saw wasn't edited, and there really wasn't an explosion in Lebanon.
How do we know that everything we see isn't fake?
This also reminded me of the movie 'The Truman Show." In this movie a man, called Truman, lives his every day life and believes what he sees is real, however he learns he is actually the main character on a TV show, and everything he has touched, seen, known for the last 40 years is fake and never existed. What if everything we knew and saw wasn't really there?
How do we know what we see and touch and feel is real?
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