Not exact matches
Perception in its primitive mode, as we have seen, is perception of causal efficacy, that is, the causal efficacy of concrete singular entities, and, as a
subjective response to such influence, it is emotional
rather than cognitive.
This tells us that the neurons»
responses were based on the
subjective, perceived judgments that the patients made
rather than on the «ground truth» of the emotion shown in the stimulus.»
Rejecting tradition, they favored bold, abstracted forms that broke free from the illusion of depth, creating simplified and stylized landscapes that expressed their personal,
subjective encounter with nature and
response to the region,
rather than trying to imitate the exact visual appearance of a location.
Cézanne's remark reminds us that Pissarro was not only endowed with the gift of seeing, but with the rarer ability to make other artists see for themselves: Cézanne, Gauguin and von Gogh bear witness to the effectiveness of Pissarro as a teacher, or
rather, one whose very presence in the vincinity of the chosen motif might serve as a catalyst, a liberating agent for the act of visual
response, freed from both traditional poncif and
subjective authority.
The ratings rely on objective aspects of experience
rather than the individual's
subjective attitudes or emotional
responses.