The Sixth Sense

the appropriate mindful response thereto. It’s rather like a competition between the opposing hemispheres of cognizance, and one that is of the utmost importance, because it is the foundational vicissitude of any degree of genuine agency. With both “sense” and “sensation” now defined, here enters a second question: why, according to Socrates, is it necessarily desirable to process these sensitivities on a more profound…

and others. Neuro is about your neurological system. NLP is based on the idea that we experience the world through our senses and translate sensory information into thought processes, both conscious and unconscious. Thought processes activate the neurological system, which affects physiology, emotions and behaviour. Linguistic refers to the way human beings use language to make sense of the world, capture and conceptualise experience,…

perception to differ between individuals. The senses contribute useful details and highly valuable information to one, allowing him/her to view the world with many possibilities. How the senses work, the effect of emotions on memory, and the process in which memories are forgotten are all factors that help contribute to how one interacts in the world. Throughout one’s life the workings of the senses contribute to how one interacts in the world. The senses of sight and sound work together with…

Self-reliance is what gives us strength to conquer any obstacle that we may possibly encounter when we undergo drastic change. We need to have a sense of balance in our mind when we want to overturn fear of drastic change in our life, being too confident could possibly lead to arrogant; but having too less confident can not accomplish anything. If we don’t have self-reliance we might turn ourselves…

Descartes begins by holding a piece of wax and using his sense to analyze its smell, color, shape and sound it makes when he hits it on his knuckle, and says “Its color shape and size are manifest” (Cress 1993,21). What he means, is that he can use his sense like sight, taste, touch smell, and hearing and know that what he has in his hand is on deed wax. Just like when a person holds a piece of bread and can use their sense to feel the texture and softness of it, and how it smells, tastes…

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…

Questions 1. What problem does the visual system face when perceiving depth? Hint: think about proximal and distal stimuli. (5 pt.) When our visual system perceives depth it uses distal stimulus and proximal stimulus. This is problematic because the distal stimulus and/ or environmental stimuli are three dimensional but the proximal stimuli hitting your retina are two-dimensional Therefore, in order to perceive depth your brain needs to interpret the two-dimensional stimuli as three dimensional…

that this may not be completely true. This is due to the blind’s enhanced auditory skills. A prime example of the blind’s enhanced hearing is similar to echolocation. Many people who experience blindness at an early age may develop a heightened sense of hearing. In ancient times the blind were looked down upon by others and were often considered their own class. Blindness was considered to be a punishment for social or religious transgressions or it was a result…

way of thinking, but I do not necessarily agree to it. Descartes’s thought development followed a series of points I disagreed with – senses may not be reliable, there are two classifications of reality, and a perfect entity has to exist being as the idea is already in the mind. When Descartes was theorizing on how the mind influences the body, he declared human senses cannot be trusted seeing as they can…

live without one of the five senses that others often take for granted. These five senses would include: the sense of touch, hearing, taste, eyesight, and smell. Occasionally, people lose certain senses as they begin to grow older, or have possibly endured a traumatic experience at some period within their life. Many elderly people live without the sense of sight or hearing. Those who have experienced severe burns or frostbite, or nerve damage, can possibly lose their sense of touch. Other…