Seeing with our eyes closed. When we did our presentation on the sixth sense we showed the video trying to have us see a ghost. What was interesting about this video to me though is the whole time we had our eyes closed, we were supposed to SEE with our eyes closed how on earth can that possibly work? Apparently it does, not in that particular instance, but there are people who are capable to such tasks, more than us just feeling a possible presence in the room. I am thinking particularly of bling people, who are able to "see" using sonar. I saw a video a few years back about people who can use clicking noises in order to navigate themselves around the world. Some people are able to even paint complex pictures of what rooms look like just using their sonar abilities. This makes me think about how much more we actually see in a particular day. As we've discussed our brains are constantly filtering things out in order for us to get our perception of any particular moment. The fact that people can pick up abilities such as sonar, makes me think of what some people may actually be capable of seeing or doing. Especially with the loss of any one of our major 5 senses.
Justice
We know the five major senses- touch, taste, sight, smell, and hearing- and we know that there are many senses beyond those ones we tend to limit ourselves to- like your sense of pain or temperature. But how many other senses are there? Which one is our sixth sense? In The Deepest Sense , I was most fascinated by the chapter on animals. Because they had a good example for what I believe is the sixth sense that ties society together. That is, one's sense of justice. Justice is something that you perceive, and it is something that is perceived by the rest of nature, or at least our closer relatives in the animal kingdom. In that experiment, one of the monkeys was upset by the injustice of the other monkey getting better treatment. This is the cornerstone of every great society- the distributing proper treatment of people and the earth. When there is great inequality, people rise up, because they sense that justice has failed them. Sure, sensing ghosts is probably the most wel...
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