REFLECTION ABOUT ON LOOKING BY ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ The reading was a good eye-opener for me. Right at the beginning, she caught your attention. Funny that she caught your attention by explaining the phenomenon of attention and how we express it as human beings. We, as a reader can really connect with her and her experience. She describes her experience of when she went dog walking and noticed some details of her “block”. Reading this you begin to think all the places you have been and all the details you miss. It’s like looking at a 360 camera but only viewing 150 degrees of it, which is more or less the human eyesight. It’s impossible to view everything at the same time. The attention is also filtered from the point of view of the person, everybody looks at the world differently and multiple people viewing exactly the same thing will have different answers when asked what it is. In the reading, she tells us the same kind of idea “There is a certain bias in every one's per...
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