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Expanding the Notion of our Senses
In this article we shall try to unravel the true nature of our senses and the relationship between them and our own self. To do this we shall take a closer look at the way they work – both biologically and psychologically. Lets start with some considerations on what they are, how they interact with the mind and so on, and then look into each of the senses – there are more than five! By touching on strange phenomena related to each senses such as illusions, sensory leakage and some tweaks that can be made through technology, we seek to present a detailed panorama on the wonderful world of senses.
Senses are complex structures belonging to the nervous system, whose job is to provide the much-needed data for perception. Traditionally it is believed that there are five senses – smell, touch, taste, hearing and sight; while others list chronoperception (the perception and experience of the passage of time) and nocioperception (the perception of damage in our tissues that result in pain) as entirely valid senses.
Our senses have physiological features that feed information to our brain, which in turn uses it to construct the image of our reality – the world we live in, our own self, and others. The information provided by the senses is an important part, but it doesn’t include all the elements that take place in the construction of “reality”, other things like ideas, also play a crucial role as we shall see below.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/08/expanding-the-notion-of-our-senses/
