Our senses: Are these sources of our consciousness or just act as filters of our true capability as conscious beings?
2007-06-20 09:25:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They are input devices. They gather information, but it is the mind (conscious mind) that must filter that information and process it. They say "seeing is believing," but if I believed everything I saw, my mind would be in chaos. Maybe that expression was started long before mass media.
2007-06-20 09:29:49 · answer #1 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our senses are a data source. Much (not all) of consciousness is located in the associative areas of the cerebral cortex where we weigh the inputs against past experience, as well as in areas such as the premotor cortex where we formulate our actions in response to that data.
2007-06-20 09:52:19 · answer #2 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
input from our senses is hugely filtered and edited, factor more or less a million to one
so consciousness, in meaning of awareness, comes from a tiny part of sensory input, plus memories etc.
2007-06-20 09:28:31 · answer #3 · answered by barry 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think they are direct lines that link to reality so as to feed and create the conscience.
If you were born with no senses I don't think the mind would naturally come about to "anything".
I think it would just be there but it wouldn't know that it is there.
2007-06-20 09:33:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Watch the film "What the Bleep?" It should answer most of that for you.
2007-06-20 09:28:49 · answer #5 · answered by J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋