Definitions for Perceiving
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1. perceiving

   Perception (from Latin perceptio 'gathering, receiving') is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sensory system. Vision involves light striking the retina of the eye; smell is mediated by odor molecules; and hearing involves pressure waves. Perception is not only the passive receipt of these signals, but it is also shaped by the recipient's learning, memory, expectation, and attention. Sensory input is a process that transforms this low-level information to higher-level information (e.g., extracts shapes for object recognition). The process that follows connects a person's concepts and expectations (or knowledge), restorative and selective mechanisms (such as attention) that influence perception. Perception depends on complex functions of the nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly effortless because this processing happens outside conscious awareness. Since the rise of experimental psychology in the 19th century, psychology's understanding of perception has progressed by combining a variety of techniques. Psychophysics quantitatively describes the relationships between the physical qualities of the sensory input and perception. Sensory neuroscience studies the neural mechanisms underlying perception. Perceptual systems can also be studied computationally, in terms of the information they process. Perceptual issues in philosophy include the extent to which sensory qualities such as sound, smell or color exist in objective reality rather than in the mind of the perceiver.Although people traditionally viewed the senses as passive receptors, the study of illusions and ambiguous images has demonstrated that the brain's perceptual systems actively and pre-consciously attempt to make sense of their input. There is still active debate about the extent to which perception is an active process of hypothesis testing, analogous to science, or whether realistic sensory information is rich enough to make this process unnecessary.The perceptual systems of the brain enable individuals to see the world around them as stable, even though the sensory information is typically incomplete and rapidly varying. Human and other animal brains are structured in a modular way, with different areas processing different kinds of sensory information. Some of these modules take the form of sensory maps, mapping some aspect of the world across part of the brain's surface. These different modules are interconnected and influence each other. For instance, taste is strongly influenced by smell.

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1. Perceiving

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1. perceivingverb

   Verb form of the word perceive.

   Perceiving with our heart, soul and mind is vital for our existence on planet earth.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 20, 2020  

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Perceiving in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Perceiving in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Perceiving in a Sentence

1. Aristotle:

   To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

2. Darren Star:

   For me, it's the evolution of the character. I think when someone goes to Paris for the first time, they are overwhelmed by the beauty of the city and that's what they're seeing, i think, perhaps, a lot of viewers who lived in Paris for a long time didn't quite understand that this was through the lens of a character who was experiencing the city for the first time. That's how she was perceiving it -- she was really struck by the beauty that was all around her.

3. Blake Flayton:

   An American Jew is only used to perceiving anti-Semitism as Nazis in Charlottesville carrying tiki torches, or a swastika being spray-painted onto a synagogue wall, or the Christian right saying that Jews killed Jesus Christ. We're not very attuned to and good at recognizing anti-Semitism when it doesn't come from that extreme side of the political spectrum, but we are going to have to get used to it, because that's what's coming here. It's already here.

4. Ayn Rand:

   Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

5. Jackie Fearnley:

   It has for years been a corrupt, murderous and authoritarian regime, and there were often issues about athletes not being paid, then complaining and then perceiving themselves to be in danger if they went back to Cameroon.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceiving
2. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Perceiving