Recently we have been talking about what reality really is and how what we see,hear, feel, smell, and taste could be fake. Well I have been wondering about why we have those senses. Why can we do all that stuff? Can we live without all of them?
I took Developmental Psychology during this summer and during the class we discussed about the senses. It was talked about a tank that numbs all the senses of a person. Inside is a kind of fluid that is kept at body temperature so that the sense of feeling is gone. In there the other senses cannot be used either.
My professor said that in just moments a person loses track of time and cannot handle being in that state. As if they are slowly turning toward insanity. They just want to get out.
Does this change anything? To me it seems as if we cannot live without them. Does this make them any less real than out thoughts? Perhaps they are just as real. Or maybe they are not real and are just there like food and water. However, our senses could be even more important than all the other things and with our thoughts probably construct reality.
1 comment:
Wow.
I have not thought of that at all. You opened my mind up to a new idea. Because if we are just in a dream and it is actually not reality, then our sense would not matter and therefore we would die in our "dream". But what happens if it really is not a dream, then you would be dead just because you doubted that your sense meant anything, when they were giving to you for many different reasons, the main reason being to be able to live.
Your idea of the sense being important is very good.!
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