Sense

People think that their children naturally accumulate knowledge when they have access to high quality education. Actually, the higher education gives a possibility for them to grow and to develop themselves, when they know what needs to be improved. However, the education does not guarantee their growth and development when they do not acknowledge their weaknesses. Knowing one’s weakness is indispensable for developing or overcoming it. In the novel of Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray,…

I was fascinated by the in-class demonstration illustrating the concept of two point discrimination and thought it would be quite interesting to try out the experiment with my family. Later that week, I tried to replicate the experiment using a paperclip bent in a “U” shape. I instructed my parents and younger sister that I would lightly touch the two ends of the paperclip on various areas of their body (fingers, palm, arm, back, leg, etc...). For the demonstration to be successful, it was…

Locke argues that our senses give us knowledge of ‘the existence of things outside us’. How does he argue for this view and do you think his arguments are plausible? If so, why? If not, could they be improved or should they be rejected? Provide an argument to support your view. John Locke was a 17th century English philosopher, who played a crucial role on representing Empiricism. In his well-known essay, Knowledge of the existence of other things, Locke argues that we know the existence of…

The five senses are the important, but some people take them for granted. If I had to choose one to live without I'd choose taste. In 2005, Duncan Boak lost his sense of smell after a brain injury. Since smell and taste are closely linked his taste was impacted as well. "It's so hard to explain but losing your sense of smell leaves you feeling like a spectator in your own life, as if you're watching from behind a pane of glass, it makes you feel not fully immersed in the world around you and it…

situational comprehensibility, Stevens forces the reader to look beyond what they are immediately able to recognize in order to get to the innate insubstantiality of “reality” In creating a mirrored structure Stevens does not allow the reader to escape the sense of being overwhelmed but rather continues throwing them back into the experience. There is no better word to describe this poem other than an experience, in which everything the reader thinks they understand will be flipped. The first…

three parts: sensation; ‘ideas’ gained through our senses, thought, and imagination/memory; imitations of ‘ideas’ collected through either sensation or thought. One could suggest this is a dangerous opening for Berkeley; he is asking his readers to, in the first sentence alone, accept that there can exist nothing except ‘ideas’. Following this categorisation, Berkeley focuses on sensation, providing lucid examples of how each of the five senses gain ‘ideas’, such as through sight, one can obtain…

Descartes Meditations takes us on an intellectual, meditative, spiritual journey inward, questioning what exactly, if anything at all, we can know with certainty. Descartes was active in physics and mathematics, as he was interested in the potential of science to give us the truth about the world. Descartes believed that knowledge has secure foundations and and that all other knowledge rests upon these foundations. Hence, in order to establish what is “firm and constant in the sciences”, it is…

One of the senses used in this poem is hearing, when they mother is speaking to her son he is listening and hearing her voice, wisdom and love. Also the way she explains her hardships and perseverance you would use the senses of seeing and touching. Seeing because you have to imagine and see the metaphors she uses, such as, walking through a dark place, climbing, and…

sensory processing disorder. All senses are potentially affected and some children may have a more severe case than others. The book defines SPD as “difficulty in the way the brain takes in, organizes and uses sensory information, causing a person to have problems interacting effectively in the everyday environment.” The senses that may be affected by SPD are the tactile sense, the vestibular sense, the proprioceptive sense, the visual sense, and the auditory sense. The book gives many examples…

How the Brain Forms Our Identities Our identities are formed through a very distinct process in which our senses interpret the events that we experience. By using our senses and our memories, we act according to what our brains remember and build our own identities. However, traumatic memories cannot be remembered as easily as regular memories can, making it difficult to have a strong and personal identity. Martha Stout’s “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday” discusses how trauma can…