The Meat Story

This is a story in which the author shows how he thinks humans may be interpretted by alien lifeforms. The aliens in the story view the human race as meat, finding it hard to believe that as such, we are sentient beings.

I believe that the themes in the story are ones of judgment, prejudice, interpretation and not giving people a chance.

The aliens judged us humans on what we are made of, not who we are. Did not wait to see the complexities of the human race but disregarded us simply as meat and therefore not only unworthy of attention but saying the notion of giving this attention to something such as sentient meat is dowright disturbing.

It was a short but effective story highlighting how something is not always as it appears.

Senses

The first time i did the senses test i did ok 13/20, not too bad. when i tried it again, i got 18/20 though this was down to memory.

The most confusing examples were the size differences tests. The eyes are easily tricked with this.

Also the test with the floor where you assume the pattern will just carry on but this does not give the right answer. This really confused me.

I think the people who would score hyighest in the test would be people who think logically and look carefully at what they are seeing, not just take for granted the obvious answer.

The optical illusions with the dot making the gears move and the sort of microscope were good examples of the brain and eyes over-working. We don't see just the picture, it moves. The brain and eyes are confused and over-compensate for what we are seeing.