“Lose your mind and come to your senses” by Fredrick Salomon. The readings support the idea that people tend to use a small percentage of their senses. The Mind’s Eye by Georgina Kleege’s and Television and The Twilight of the Senses by Bill McKibben’s are two reading that share their differences and similarities. The reading, Television and the Twilight of the senses, is Television and its affect to the people. On the other hand, The Mind’s eye, talks about how he sees the senses and the brain working; and how using your senses you learn more experience and knowledge about anything in the world. In putting these texts in conversation, we see that the brain affects the senses by trying to focus on one objective, and focusing on another. Mckibben
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Human beings will miss the importance of a social life. McKibben states, when watching television and being a distraction, it is almost taking a time out in your life. Kleege adds on that people seemed to find comfort in boredom, which is watching T.V. Kleege believes that the mind sketches an outline or map in life. The brain knows there is a blind spot, and when you really want to knowledge the blind spot, you see it. But Mckibben suggested that when you are focusing on T.V, you do not realize what is happening: the only sense’s that are functioning are the eyes and ears. That being said, concentrating on television, will restrict you from seeing that blind spot. He continues that T.V makes them feel more passive, bored, sad, and lonely, yet people still watch T.V. Human being watching T.V, do not realize it restricts and distractions them from using other …show more content…
Why? Television never even thinks in rejecting you. Television could be looked at in a positive way or negative way; it really depends how you see things, mentioned by McKibben. One could take it the right way or the wrong way. For example, “I see what I sense is there, what I know is there, what I hope is there, not necessarily what actually is there.” Human beings create an illusion or imagine what is there or how things are going to happen. People who take advantage of television affect there brain and start doing things differently. For instance, television is tend to show what they want, as mentioned by McKibben before, but when someone starts doing things differently because now there brain thinks differently as well, is taking advantage of television. Kleege states about how we “see” more than what we’re supposed
Human beings will miss the importance of a social life. McKibben states, when watching television and being a distraction, it is almost taking a time out in your life. Kleege adds on that people seemed to find comfort in boredom, which is watching T.V. Kleege believes that the mind sketches an outline or map in life. The brain knows there is a blind spot, and when you really want to knowledge the blind spot, you see it. But Mckibben suggested that when you are focusing on T.V, you do not realize what is happening: the only sense’s that are functioning are the eyes and ears. That being said, concentrating on television, will restrict you from seeing that blind spot. He continues that T.V makes them feel more passive, bored, sad, and lonely, yet people still watch T.V. Human being watching T.V, do not realize it restricts and distractions them from using other …show more content…
Why? Television never even thinks in rejecting you. Television could be looked at in a positive way or negative way; it really depends how you see things, mentioned by McKibben. One could take it the right way or the wrong way. For example, “I see what I sense is there, what I know is there, what I hope is there, not necessarily what actually is there.” Human beings create an illusion or imagine what is there or how things are going to happen. People who take advantage of television affect there brain and start doing things differently. For instance, television is tend to show what they want, as mentioned by McKibben before, but when someone starts doing things differently because now there brain thinks differently as well, is taking advantage of television. Kleege states about how we “see” more than what we’re supposed