what is the difference between sense organ and sense power?

Question

aristotle, studied the different causes of sensation and its relation to the soul. he discussed that soul is the essence of the form or the "whatness" of the body. sensation is held to be some sort of change of quality. i guess i need some answers from the experts in the philosophy of human beings. thanks.

Answer 1

FIVE PHYSICAL AND FIVE SPIRITUAL POWERS

In man five outer powers exist, which are the agents of perception, that is to say, through these five powers man perceives material beings. These are sight, which perceives visible forms; hearing, which perceives audible sounds; smell, which perceives odors; taste, which perceives foods; and feeling, which is in all parts of the body, and perceives tangible things. These five powers perceive outward existences.

Man has also spiritual powers: imagination, which conceives things; thought, which reflects upon realities; comprehension, which comprehends realities, memory, which retains whatever man imagines, thinks, and comprehends. The intermediary between the five outward powers and the inward powers, is the sense which they possess in common, that is to say, the sense which acts between the outer and inner powers, conveys to the inward powers  318  whatever the outer powers discern. It is termed the common faculty, because it communicates between the outward and inward powers, and thus is common to the outward and inward powers.

For instance, sight is one of the outer powers; it sees and perceives this flower, and conveys this perception to the inner power -- the common faculty -- which transmits this perception to the power of imagination, which in its turn conceives and forms this image and transmits it to the power of thought; the power of thought reflects, and having grasped the reality, conveys it to the power of comprehension; the comprehension, when it has comprehended it, delivers the image of the object perceived to the memory, and the memory keeps it in its repository.

The outward powers are five: the power of sight, of hearing, of taste, of smell, and of feeling.

The inner powers are also five: the common faculty, and the powers of imagination, thought, comprehension, and memory.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha Section, p. 317)

Answer 2

I am by no means an expert, but it sounds like a sense organ are you normal senses like sight, smell, taste......etc.

A sense power sounds to me like empathic or telepathic abilities. Things that are beyond the normal senses reach.