One of the most classical examples of perception is Depth Perception.
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3. Depth Perception: If there is one process I could point to that provides a classic example of what perception is, it is Depth Perception. Consider what reality should be, if we go simply with what I happening at the level of the transducer.
We have two eyes and receive two flat images which differ only slightly in the angle of their line of sight. Hence, what we should experience is two overlapping images that are slightly different (not to mention the upside down bit).
But what appears in our consciousness is one image separated from other objects in a three dimensional space. Since, the transducers are providing information in two dimensions only, the illusion of three dimensions (3D) is purely a construct of our brains!