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Perception is the sensory experience of the world <ref name="ref1"/>, the process and the subjective result of obtaining and processing information from stimuli originated in the environment and the self. Yet every individual may perceive the same situation differently, which is filtered by biological mechanisms, personal beliefs, and cultural contexts. What we perceive may be far from a direct reflection of reality. Personal interpretation is further influenced by cultural or ideological circumstances, affecting individual worldviews consistently.<ref name="ref2"/> Whether through vision, touch, hearing, taste, or smell, human perception is never purely objective. For this reason, philosophical approaches question how each person's subjective pattern recognition relates to any objective reality. Consequently, examining both the neuroscience of sensation and the philosophical implications of our perceptual construction of the world broadens our understanding of implicit and explicit frameworks of reality.