Sense

How can our sensory channels influence other sensory channels? Our senses and how we perceive certain stimuli is an important factor when we try to make sense of the world around us. The Stimulus around us sends information to different parts of our brain in order for us to feel, sense, taste or hear the things that we do. Even more interesting though is how our sensory channels can influence another sensory channel unconsciously. For instance, like in a movie theater when you are watching the…

In the book “On Academic Scepticism,” the argument of the senses is presented between the Stoics and the Academics. This argument is represented by Lucullus who defends the Stoics view that the senses contain the highest truth, and Cicero who represents the Skeptics who believe that the senses are faulty. Lucullus believes that the senses are clear and certain, claiming that “there is a great deal of truth in the senses, providing they are healthy and properly functioning and all obstacles and…

Many people believe that human reality and experiences are the direct outcome of people’s senses and people’s reality and personal experiences are created that base on the reactions with surrounding’s stimulates. However, the production of people’s reality and personal experiences is a very complicated process, the surrounding’s stimulates are just part of it. In “The Mind’s Eye: What The Blind See” Oliver Sacks talks about the different characteristics that the blind people have and he points…

Sound is an essential element that encircle our world, information can be gained through listening, which listening is a more advanced sense in that are fundamental to human. According to Helen Keller, hearing is the soul of knowledge and information of a high order. The disable of listening as if detached from the world, sound is also a factor built this nature, as Max Neuhaus mentioned sound has given context to a place. Sound is that important but in the same time too fundamental, the…

period of time, will they cause a disturbance like rotten meat when it sits too long in the refrigerator or if it gets thrown away of all together will the smell still linger and haunt the person for a long time. The smell or thought of it creates a sense of regret that could become anger making a person change their views on the world. At this point, Hughes creates the image of the dream becoming a carcass after certain amount of time being left unattended. If rotting meat didn 't smell so bad,…

3. Do all animal species use the same senses? Expand on at least three species. As a one of the animal species, human has various senses with the five traditional senses; taste, smell, touch, sight, and hearing, all other animal species has the different types and outstanding senses with different genetical organism and its lifestyle for surviving. Even if some animal shows very similar direction for use its sense, but, in such cases, there are differences between the frequency of use and…

through sight, smell, feel, or any of their senses). Then the opposite subjectivist view in which color is dependant on the viewer. In this view, external objects may or may not exist but the colors people see are dependant on the the impression they receive as the color. In this way the color exists only in the mind as a part of perception. Berkeley writes a dialogue between two men, Hylas (a materialist believing in an…

found without sensation, or judgment without it”. While imagination is its own type of motion for Aristotle, distinct from perceiving and thinking, it occurs with sense-perception, explaining that “Imagination will be a motion taking place as a result of sense-perception in act” (428b30). For Aristotle, images are a result of the senses, therefore the images that our minds conjure up derive themselves from previous perceptions. Images occur before us in ways of memories, dreams, or thoughts…

Aristotle’s theory on people’s perception of reality was that ultimately, perception is reality. He said that the sole task of human consciousness is to perceive and that there is only one reality: that which man perceives. Perception occurs in being moved or affected, and it seems to be a type of alteration. From perception comes memory, from memory comes experience, and from experience comes a principle of truth and knowledge. Therefore, perception is the foundation for all human knowledge,…

yourself or the activity in play. “Mental imagery should not focus on the outcome but on the actions to achieve the desired outcome.”(Mac) Imagery involves many senses, these senses are brought up with the thoughts in your mind. These senses include kinesthetic sense, visual sense, tactile sense, and olfactory sense. Individually, each sense plays its own part in creating the overall picture or situation occurring. To start off with, kinesthetic…