What Isn't the 6th Sense?
In our last class, we talked about the sixth sense. Well, in actuality we talked about a lot of things, unusual experiences and types of knowledge, because any experience that doesn't fit neatly into our cultures pre-established categories of understanding and perception can get put under the umbrella of "the sixth sense," even though this would make for more than six senses; each currently unexplainable form of input would really constitute its own sense. But there is one "sixth sense" that I would like to talk about now, and it was inspired by something that Saul said in class. He was talking about how our lives and our perceptions consist of more than just the five senses we know about, how we do not merely perceive and process empirical data, how there must be "something else" in the human experience. And there is of course. There is in fact a recognized force that we use to interact with the world and with the data we collect with our senses -- c...