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| Your Senses |
Your Senses
Your sense organs provide your brain with all of the information it possesses about your external environment. Your sense organs are remarkable detectors, but they do have physical limitations. Your sense organs also filter environmental information as it is detected. The resulting information from your senses is further filtered as it flows through diverse parts of your brain. Then your brain gets to work, using the information that it has gathered, and constructs a model of reality in your mind.
When you listen to an orchestra play, your conscious mind hears music – not a set of vibrations at different frequencies and intensities. When you look out the window, you see a tree – not a set of colour intensities across your retina.
We normally think of five sets of specialized organs (tongue, nose, skin, ears, and eyes) as providing all the information about the environment and the state of our body, to our brains. The orientation systems in our joints and our ears should be counted as an additional sense .
In this section, the emphasis is on the flow of information from sensory organs to your brain.
Your sense organs provide your brain with all of the information it possesses about your external environment. Your sense organs are remarkable detectors, but they do have physical limitations. Your sense organs also filter environmental information as it is detected. The resulting information from your senses is further filtered as it flows through diverse parts of your brain. Then your brain gets to work, using the information that it has gathered, and constructs a model of reality in your mind.
When you listen to an orchestra play, your conscious mind hears music – not a set of vibrations at different frequencies and intensities. When you look out the window, you see a tree – not a set of colour intensities across your retina.
We normally think of five sets of specialized organs (tongue, nose, skin, ears, and eyes) as providing all the information about the environment and the state of our body, to our brains. The orientation systems in our joints and our ears should be counted as an additional sense .
In this section, the emphasis is on the flow of information from sensory organs to your brain.
