Only through our senses can knowledge of the Universe be obtained. The sense organs and their related nervous systems, designed to obtain, examine and investigate information about the outside world, have developed and evolved over a many generations. The primary senses consist of five: sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. The Mind makes use of…
Category: 3 The Senses
(a) Sight
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The eyes are immediately active from the first waking moment until its time to go to sleep. Like a video camera, everything that is seen is sent to the brain for processing and storage. The sense of sight is the highest and most complex of all the senses. About 80% of our sensory perception is…
(b) Sound
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The sense of Hearing is more complex than Taste, Touch or Smell; objects being sensed must be brought into close contact with them for information. In Hearing impressions may be far removed; they are carried by the vibrations in the air, caught and reported upon by the ears and their internal mechanism. The ears rely…
(c) Smell
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Smells can trigger vivid memories, involving sights, sounds and emotional impressions of events from our distant past. Odor particles too small to be seen with a microscope are what make smell. The nose is the opening of the Lungs, and through it respiration occurs. It is designed to smell, moisten and filter the air inhaled.…
(d) Touch
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The sense of Touch is the one sense where humans surpass animals in the matter of degree and acuteness. The animal may have a keener Sight, Smell, Taste and Hearing, but its sense of Touch is far beneath that of a human. It is the simplest, primal sense; long before lower forms of life developed…
(e) Taste
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The sense of Taste is closely allied to that of Touch. It has been considered a very highly developed sense of Touch. In fact, the tongue has the finest sense of Touch as well as the sense of Taste developed to perfection. The sense of Taste depends to a great extent upon the presence of…