what are the negative aspects to our 5 senses?

Question

This is a for a debate.. do our 5 senses have more advantages or disadvantages. And my perspective is that there are more disadvantages..wud appreciate any pointers from you all..

Answer 1

Sensory Disadvantages:

When shrieking sirens tearing through your head makes you wince, or your friend's wailing, whining children makes you wish you could smile and turn off your ears.

When your neighbor's dog barks all night, or the party never ends.

When you have to pick up broken glass and get that strange feeling you have a minute sliver of glass in your fingers but it's 50/50 you don't.

When someone learning to play or thinks they can play an instrument - unfortunately electrical or with drumsticks.

When your upstairs neighbor naturally stomps (not walks), and clumsily drops things on the top floor too often.

When the camera's flash zaps your eyes, blinds you, and the world turns red with a spot you can't erase.

When you can't see at night, or in the daylight with snow on the ground without sunglasses.

When you eat ice cream or drink a shake too fast and you mind freezes, not your tongue.

When you taste a lemon and can't return your face to normal. When you need a trough full of water to wash away too much cayenne pepper.

When you sweat in humidity or shiver in icy water.

When you smell acrid odors and you wish you did not. When the acrid odors burn and you wonder if this will give you cancer.

Answer 2

Excellent question. The 5 senses evolved to enable us to survive in the wildernesses that hardly exist anymore. But we are essentially the same animals as we were then. So they still have the capabilities to alert us to dangers we rarely encounter now. For each sense there exists 3 components, the sense organ, (eye, ear nose, etc), contact with the stimulus (a sight, a sound, a smell etc) and the inner processing of the stimuli. It is this inner processing that determines whether or not the we experience advantage or disadvantage. If the sound stops at the sense organ, the ear, for example, no reaction takes place, positive or negative and equanimity is preserved. It is possible to practice this until one can stop all stimuli at the sense organ 'doors'. So ultimately, one has, or can have a choice. Good luck!

Answer 3

Negative aspects of senses? Or sense organs? Nothing . Nothing at all.

These sense organs and the resultant senses have no inedependent authority at all. Your eye does NOT tell you " No... No... donot see this". Your tougue does tell you not to eat the junk food. They are just reporters . There is something , beyond even the brain that commands the brain to act on the report by the sense organs.

As i said , even the brain does not take a decision. This central command executes the will of the mind. Where is the mind? Some show the head , some the heart , some say they donot know. But that culprit has , both , negative and the positive aspects.

Answer 4

Advantage: We get to experience a world of interaction. Imagine all your senses suddenly disappeared. You wouldn't be able to have a physical life.
Disadvantage: We think what we experience through the senses is real because we experienced it. Yet the senses aren't a definitive reality. Our senses are subjective. We interpret what we feel, taste, hear, smell and see on the inside according to an inner perception.
So I guess we need the senses but we could be more observant of our experiences through them!

Answer 5

It depends. The 5 senses minus common sense always is a disadvantage.

Answer 6

Our senses keep us alert to danger, what could be the disadvantage to that? If someone isn't helped by their own senses, they must be out of touch with their surroundings and probably are spoiled or pampered and get hurt a lot when they are alone.

Answer 7

Our senses allow us to understand the world outside of ourselves. They are necessary for our survival. This includes the unpleasant ones, such as pain. Other drawbacks include that they are limited (we cannot sense ultraviolet light, for instance) and they are not always accurate.

Without sensation, we are brains hovering inside casements, unable to communicate or understand the world, and we would not live long. The positives outweigh the negatives.

Answer 8

if your nose runs and your feet smell....you could be built upside down.
I think it's completely wrong to argue that there are any disadvantages, and there ought to be a sixth....balance.
I defy anyone to function without a sense of balance.
And don't say "weightless in space". We still need to "sense" changes in inertia.

Answer 9

Our 5 senses are obstacles to our innate capabilities.
Each sense deprives us of our ability to trully sense from the inside.
Our attatchments to each of the senses has deeply affected our abilities to tune into the deeper reality of human emotion and awareness.
Oh dear, how sad ,never mind

Answer 10

There is no limit to how much we can use them and no curbs on the direction. Freedom may degenerate into license.

May lead to overcommunication and sensitivity at times.