I agree some what with Socrates

Prompt: Perception

To perceive something, it takes sometimes time and studying for some people but to others, just one look is fine for them. From several personal experiences, I agree some what with Socrates. Although I some what agree with Socrates, Gorgias’ statement on objective perception being impossible is understanding because with people constantly twisting information, it is going to become harder to reach the truth.

I agree with Socrates because after dealing with so many different people, I’ve learned to notice the different mind levels, actions and reactions, and altogether different personalities between children and adults, men and women, and age eighteen to twenty-five and thirty to fifty. Also after being a participant of the Law Academy in high school, I learned a lot about long term and short term memory. Generally, most people can not always remember exactly what happened two days ago but they can easily recall what happened two years ago.

In the court system, during interrogation, the eye witness or victim may have a hard time recalling the events due to anxiety, being afraid, or even due to some type of illness. For example, in class, our teacher played a game “Pass the Word”. The object of this game was to prove that people twist information with out realizing it. He passed a statement around the room but when the last student repeated the statement back to him, it was incorrect. Although the statement was twisted among the students, everyone seemed to grasp the general idea.

Also another example, an eye witness to a crime was being interrogated right after the crime but was unable to turn in a statement due to memory lost. A few weeks later, the same eye witness was able to give a written statement and participate in a criminal line up. The criminal was number five. The eye witness chose him out of everyone.

On a personal level, I feel that a person’s environment plays huge parts in weather they can perceive things as quickly as others and also weather they are able to perceive objectively. Sometimes, due to major events within a person’s life, time can alter things like their ability to see or some physical distorting. Time also can alter their mind levels causing them to be able to perceive faster or slower. Children can not perceive some things like an adult can just like adults are not always able to recall things as quickly as a child. There is a time for everything and many times, it’s not the person’s time to perceive what ever it is they are trying to perceive.

All of this can tie in with perception because many of the same factors that disable a person of recalling events they have seen or heard are the same ones that disable a person to perceive objectively. After my many experiences, I feel that perception- to understand is something that varies within person weather it is objective or subjective, right or wrong, or anything else. Although it is highly unlikely, objective perception is possible.