Reflection of theme 1

The first theme of the course Theory and method for media technology was end in last week and I had learnt a lot of during last week. I think the course is very interesting whatever is the lecture or seminar and the most interesting thing is the seminar that we discussed and shared our own ideas with other students. In fact I was a little doubt for why should we have to learn the philosophy before the course start, but now I think it is necessary cause the idea and theories we learnt from this course will give a great helpful for my next study.

After the lecture, seminar makes I have a more clearly understanding of what Kant and Plato’s opinion for what is knowledge and how could we perceive the world. In Kant’s opinion, we perceive the world through form of intuition (space and time) and twelve categories, our ‘filter’ interact it through what we observed in the surrounding environments. Kant also gives the worlds own form which is: perception without conception is blind, conception without perception is empty. In my point of view, it is conception that form our recognition and think by itself automatically.  On the contrary, perception is what we perceive from outside objects. Vision transform  into perception when the lights of objects reflect to our eyes. If we lose the conception , we can only see “bodies” from outside but we can not  form an cognition. In this way, perception will depressed into useless. That is why we call “perception without conception is blind”. Meanwhile, If we can not perceive from the out side, we have no idea of what we’ve already observed. Our conception can not form an recognition because there is nothing can be based on. That is why “ conception without perception is empty”. Also, in the last seminar ,we are mainly talked about what the meaning of this, we assume that a child did not have a soul (it means knowledge or conception in this) when he was born and therefore, he is blind. But he will get the soul via his growing up and clash the outside objects he observed. As my opinion, even a newborn child will have a soul but the soul is in a deep sleep and it will wake up slowly when it meet other souls and make a reflection of the stimulus from those souls. We also talked about what will happened if a child growing up without any parenting or contact with any culture. The answer of our is we all believe that he will survive but he will have a completely different view of perceiving the world and living in a different life. The reason for that is just reflect what Kant said the baby just follow the role to perceive the world through form of intuition and categories. That is similar like Plato’s idea which is we do not see and hear "with" the eyes and the ears, but "through" the eyes and the ears. Different people will have different view with same objects because they have different conceptions. In other word, the perception of the world will only depending on ourselves.