Camera, Information, and Developmental Psychology

Your letters should focus on the readings, independent reflection, and responding to your colleague’s letter. Your letters should aim to explain what you find interesting or what strikes you as important, accurate/inaccurate, confusing, or just plain odd.
colleague‘s letter：
Harold and the Purple Crayon made me think of why we create our own problems alongside our own worlds. As well as the subjectivity of objectivity itself as it’s impossible to conceive reality in any way but through our own human experience of knowledge. From the prior letter I wrote about not wanting to look in the mirror rationalize, question, etc. what I “look” like but reading what Kant wrote made me note that unity of consciousness and recognizing objects are determined by empirical and transcendental apperception. This intrigued me as I found the fact that a camera can’t take a picture of itself to be important in subjectivity and objective knowledge. I feel that this fact could be beneficial in a field such as developmental psychology in terms of assisting those in growth in attempting to stall inherent insecurities in a modern age of over-representation and misinformation. Where the “I” one perceives isn’t determined by how you “look.” But rather this replayed pattern of consciousness to being. Which in itself sounds simple but in reality you go through a process in a matter of seconds (or longer) when evaluating simply an object to inform, to understand. We like to “jump the gun” so to say where when we have no stimuli for this conciousness to being pattern to take place we prefer to make it for ourselves (which is what I got from this) with it’s own “problems” to seek understanding. I feel this way especially nowadays where many important experiences are overshadowed by a lack of that personal touch, that interaction which is projected through a device rather than informing yourself on your prior understandings or cognition. Such as being fed “information” through a phone or interacting with someone through said phone.
Sincerely,