Perception and Learning to Perceive To perceive and to consciously observe is one aspect of art, that is essential for a conscious and aware life. Seeing, proven by neuroscientists, affects special regions of the human brain and connects segments of our brain parts as soon as many events occur. But the individual extent of seeing determines how those connections develop: Only by creating a context between the perceptions, our brain forms durable connections. Nowadays, people see various personalities, knowledge, information, work and much more in a very short time, so perceiving becomes an element of quantity more than one of quality. The time for building connections gets shorter because we perceive more instead of first perceiving and then converting content. We see more but recognize less. While humanity strives for knowing and studying without any end point, the amount of how much one human brain actually knows deteriorates. Art in a cultural context is an important instance of society to educate a conscious perception. When seeing art, it is not about watching, it is about
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