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Filtering Essay - Examining our filters in everyday life

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                 Laura Stephens
  
                      Filter Assignment
  
  Throughout this entire assignment, I found it extremely difficult not to filter anything out. Because that is something that we all automatically do, it was nearly impossible to really figure out what it would be like if I had to process everything that came at me and not automatically filter it out and come to a conclusion without analysis. I did, however, try my hardest to un-filter everything, but it was a fun experience, even though it was challenging.
  
  First of all, I tried to just think of things without identifying. I walked into my basement and looked at a dark, rectangular object that was flat on one side, and a big bump on the other. There were flashing images on it, a sound was coming out of it as well. I knew that this was a TV, and I think that's where I had the most trouble. While trying to describe the object and figure out what it was using my sense perceptions and not memory, I tried to think, but all that came out was "This TV is dark, rectangular, etc." In one instance, however, my mother went grocery shopping and brought home a fruit, I had no idea what it was I really got an opportunity to try to figure out what it was, because I didn't already know what it was, and thus couldn't really rely on my memory to tell me what it was. The fruit was large, round, lightly colored, somewhat squishy, and when I cut it open, was divided into small pinkish-red sections...