id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1906 Perception - Wikipedia .html text/html 11437 1674 59 Although the senses were traditionally viewed as passive receptors, the study of illusions and ambiguous images has demonstrated that the brain's perceptual systems actively and pre-consciously attempt to make sense of their input.[4] There is still active debate about the extent to which perception is an active process of hypothesis testing, analogous to science, or whether realistic sensory information is rich enough to make this process unnecessary.[4] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1906.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1906.txt