The argument of if seeing is believing can be greatly debated...
On one side of the argument, people believe that our cognitive senses cannot be relied upon because of the fact that our senses tend to not see what is in actuality, rather, they see what is useful to our perception of our environment. This can be proven by many optical illusions, such as those of Beau Lotto, which make us see that we cannot truly rely on our perception of reality as it is not what it actually is.
On the other hand, some (such as myself) argue that what other choice do we have? We are given with 5 ways of perceiving reality and that is what we base our decisions on. This is the way we have survived for all of evolution...
Looking on to the future, as technology advances, we may slowly and slowly reduce our dependency on our senses as we will be able to use different mediums to make sense of our environment.
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