Do sensations actually exist. If they do does a piece of wood on fire feel itself burning?

Question

Does the ground feel me stepping on it?
Does the cup feel me drinking from it?
Does the mirror feel my reflection?


If we distinguish the sensation itself with out mind, does the sensation itself still exist?
I am thinking it does because our memories are based on sensations obtained.

Answer 1

I'm gonna go with ... no. In order to have a sensation like touch or pain, a thing must (1) have a nervous system; (2) have a nervous system developed enough to feel pain (I'm not sure if it's possible to prove that insects feel "pain"); (3) have some kind of brain. Wood and ground and cups and mirrors do not have nervous systems or brains.

Spiritually, however ... yes. Perhaps inanimate objects do know.

Without the mind, there is ... nothing, at least not in the way that we know it, because we can never step outside our minds. I'm not sure how the fact that memories are based on sensations would prove the existence of the sensation-in-itself. I don't think it does prove that. But many people have similar or the same bodily sensations as many other people.

Answer 2

This belongs in another category... try philosophy, or something like that.