The Sixth Sense

ways. These emotions can act as a type of barrier to understanding and comprehending reality. In the book The Apology of Socrates, Meletus of the prosecution is blinded and sees reality in a distorted sense due to his large pride and hatred against Socrates. Meletus is the “representative”, in a sense, for the poets who Socrates insulted by insinuating that the poets were not wise. Meletus is rather indignant with Socrates and also is puffed up in his own self-importance. Socrates questions…

1. Acknowledge Describe your experience Chapter 3 from Tools for Mindful Living clarified the steps of the MAC Mindfulness Model – acknowledgment, attention, acceptance, and action. This chapter not only provided meticulous descriptions of the four steps of the MAC Mindfulness Model, but is also stood as a prodigious learning experience. I go through my life making innate habits, without realizing the steps I acquired to perform those actions, thoughts, or judgments. I remained able to take in…

from our senses such as the sensation of touch. According to Hume, ideas are just “faint copies” of impressions that are “less forcible and lively”. An example of this is that we can love someone which is an impression and we can think about the concept of love which would be an idea. The concept will always feel fainter and weaker yet he directly…

A research group from the Department of Psychology of the University of New Mexico, Roster et al., have recently found that clutter is beneficial to individuals since it helps develop a sense of self (Roster et al. 7). Psychologist writer for LifeHacker, Mikael Cho, offers details of another research that has found that certain people need a certain degree of mess to get things done (Cho). Stress columnist writer for Lifestyle Magazine…

The purpose of this literature review paper is to analyze the use of proprioception training in individuals who have suffered a cerebrovascular accident, most commonly referred to as a stroke. As defined in the textbook (Coker, 2013), proprioception is “the continuous flow of sensory information received from receptors located in the muscles, tendons, joints, and inner ear regarding movement and body position.” A stroke can affect various areas of the brain, including those involved in balance…

These smells start to flood you nose as you begin to walk around Riverpark Square, RiverPark Square is a small section of downtown Riverfront park. The smells range from the surrounding restaurants, to the rushing river waters, to the metal architecture that was and placed in Riverpark. A place that creates memories is a place that I will continue to go back and visit. I believe that RiverPark Square is filled with smells to remind the people of memories that they have made in the park. When…

comments on modern art’s effects on human senses and relations with space, are one of said claims. He states: “The Old Masters created an illusion of space in depth that one could imagine oneself walking into, but the analogous illusion created by the Modernist painter can only be seen into; can be travelled through , literally or figuratively, only with the eye.” No one could argue with the first half of this assertion,…

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,…

“sound” of the train’s whistle. If the text doesn’t mention the color of the train, I imagine that it’s red with clouds of white smoke pumping from the engine. In addition to using the senses of smell, sight, taste and hearing, through visualization, touch is another sense that I use. The extent to which each of the senses may be used depends on the type of…

than direct realism. Direct realism was first described by Aristotle. He described how a seer learns about an object by directly seeing it impressed on the eye. In other words, it is where external material objects are directly experienced, without sense-data (Bernecker, 2008). René Descartes and John Locke were supporters of indirect realism, the position that our conscious experiences are not of the real world, but of an internal representation. It explains that ideas of the world are only…