What is meant by sensations and perceptions? How does the mind change the former into the latter?

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Thank you so much philosophers fot the answers. Have a wonderful day.

Answer 1

Formal cognition.

Outline of Hegel's Phenomenology

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/ol_phen.htm#13

Outline of Hegel's Phenomenology

B. Perception
13. Perception has no longer for object the Sensuous in so far as it is immediate, but in so far as it is general. It is a mingling of sensuous determinations with those of Reflection.

14. The object of this Consciousness is, therefore, the Thing with its Properties. The sensuous properties are (a) for themselves immediately in sensation, and likewise determined and mediated through the relation to others; (b) they belong to a thing, and are in this respect, on the one hand, embraced in the individuality of the same; on the other hand, they have generality, according to which they transcend this individual thing, and are at the same time independent of each other.


A. The Sensuous Consciousness.
11. The simple sensuous Consciousness is the immediate certitude of an external object. The expression for the immediateness of such an object is that "it is," and moreover a "This," a "Now" according to time, and a "Here" according to space, and different from all other objects and perfectly, determined (definite) in itself.

12. This Now and this Here are vanishing somewhats. Now is no more while it is and another Now has entered its place, and this latter Now has likewise vanished. But the Now abides all the same. This abiding Now is the general Now, which is both this and that Now, and is likewise neither of them. This Here which I mean, and point out, has a right and left, an above and a below, a behind and a before, etc., ad infinitum; i.e. the Here pointed out is not a simple and hence definite Here, but a unity including many Heres. Therefore, what in truth is extant is not the abstract, sensuous determinateness [the simple "it is"], but the General.'

Formal Cognition:
'Concrete operational stage (Elementary and early adolescence). In this stage (characterized by 7 types of conservation: number, length, liquid, mass, weight, area, volume), intelligence is demonstrated through logical and systematic manipulation of symbols related to concrete objects. Operational thinking develops (mental actions that are reversible). Egocentric thought diminishes. '

http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/piaget.html

The reflection on the fact that selfs mental actions are correctable in repsect to real things or people, that mental actions are reversible is the self conscious recognition for perception. Perception its self develops before this self consciousness.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 2

Of course sensations are felt through the five senses: touch, taste, feel, smell and see... and pass through the nervous system to our brain, which then tells the nervous system how to respond, making some reponses immediate physical ones (ouch! that's hot!), and others turn into perceptions, or insight/knowledge gained by such perception.

If I knew how the brain turned a sensation into a perception, I wouldn't be sitting here now, I think I'd be giving a lecture somewhere. My only idea is that as we grow from infant to adult we learn how to change sensation to perception... I believe it is a learned response.
That's it for my take on the subject! Thanks for the question.
And you have a good day too.

Answer 3

This is a cognitive function.

Most people can relate to a leg going numb or a tingling sensation in the foot or leg if you sit with your legs crossed. Physiologically, a nerve is being pinched. The nerve is considered as one cell. The brain with no other way to interrupt this only reads an interrupted signal.

It is our minds though that attach meaning to the sensation. The brain registers the interrupted signal, but it is through thought and language that we can say "my foot feel asleep". These are social and cognitive perceptions about what is a simple physiological process.

The first, numbness, is a sensation. "My foot fell asleep" is a perception about the sensation.

Answer 4

a sound wave is a physical sensation , music, the organization of soundwaves ,when received in the brain thru the ears is then translated into a perception a perception of happiness or sadness maybe introspection