Senses

Spell of the Sensuous- SENSES

“In the act of perception, in other words, I enter into a sympathetic relation

with the perceived, which is possible only because neither my body nor the sensible

exists outside the flux of time, and so each has its own dynamism, its own pulsation

and style.  Perception, in this sense, is an attunement or synchronization between

my own rhythms and the rhythms of the things themselves, their own tones and

textures.”  This paragraph was of particular interest to me because it describes

perception in detail.  Since many of us have the same five senses, I think many of us

assume that we see the world the same way, thus we perceive it the same way.

However, perception is the brain making sense of the information that it is

interpreting.  Therefore, all of your past experiences, views about life and morality,

friends and family, etc. have an impact on the way you perceive everything.  Since

perception occurs in the brain, these are just a few things that can have an effect on

our overall experience of the external world.

Each of our senses has a particular job and way of experiencing sensory

information in the world.  Regardless of whether or not an individual regards one

sense as more important then another, each scent is responsible for experiencing

the world in ways the other scents are incapable of.  What happens when people

lose one of their senses?  Do the other remaining senses strengthen to make up for

the loss?  This article explains how the brain re-wires itself once one of its senses is

lost.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/really-the-brain-gets-rewired-if-one-

of-the-senses-is-lost/