Perception
Perception
In this article we’ll take look at our five senses and how they are really rather poor at actually helping us to perceive all there is to perceive.
We humans have a very limited system to perceive things. We use our five senses as our main tools for perception: seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling. In spite of what we may want to believe, those systems area rather horrible at their job. What you can see of all there is to see is remarkably small. For example, one cannot see Infrared, or Ultra Violet spectrums at all. With a little myopia one cannot see street signs or a hyperopia one cannot see type face, or with both one cannot see much without an aid. What humans can hear is a tiny fraction of what there is to hear. My sense of smell is beyond horrible. Nearly of these senses can be knocked out with a simple common cold or other ailment and all can just cease working altogether for good. The senses are hardly uniform, as many people see colors in different ways and many find one sound pleasing when another finds it displeasing.
The five senses are our tools to perceiving, receptors of information. While they are tools, rather poor tools, they are tools that are meant to aid in the ability to perceive our reality. They are aids, they are not end all be all but we seem the as such, and here is where we have gotten lost. Humans have become so reliant on the five senses that they have abandoned all other means to perceive. Way, way back we used to find the so called sixth sense as a normal everyday feature of life. Then it became the domain of witches and weirdoes, and now it is seen a quaint novelty that cannot compete with science. Ingo Swann, noted researcher and interesting guy, has written about us having 17 senses in our arsenal. What? If true, it is clear we all agreed to quit at the standard five. His 17 range from sensors in the nose to smell emotions to skin sensors that sense the temperament of other beings. Ever wonder how the first person decided to eat a mushroom, given most are not edible? Maybe it was simpler when folks used all 17 senses, but because we can’t do anything without a dumbphone these days, I’d be hard pressed to take the average person on food hunt in the woods and figure out what to eat without a lab or google access.
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