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  • Three Known Types Of Extrasensory Perception
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    ESP ESP is one of our weakest senses. Compared to our other five senses, ESP is definitely our weakest. This seems to be true because our other five senses are so easily seen, but seeing that we all have ESP, it cannot be so easily seen, but we know that it is there. This is why ESP is one of our weakest senses. ESP, or extrasensory perception, is Perception that occurs independently of the known sensory processes (Encyclopedia Britannica, page 1). There are three known types of extrasensory per...
  • Response Early Experiments On Perception
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    Psychology: Experiments on Perception by Peter Lafferty The great cookie-cutter experiment One of the basic questions examined by psychology is: 'How do humans perceive things' Perception is the process of forming a coherent picture of the world. But how does perception work Until the 1960's, a rather simplistic view was taken of perception. The organs of perception the eyes and ears, for example were considered as passive receptors of data from the surroundings. It was thought that the act of p...
  • Buddha's Reasoning Of The Senses
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    The issue of our mistrust and or trust in our humanly senses remains a building block for philosophies of many notorious philosophers. In the discussions "The Allegory of the Cave" written by Plato and "Meditation: The Path to Enlightenment" by Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha, both analyze the issue of our senses. Both philosophies are reasonably logical and realistic in their approach to the humanly senses and whether or not they should be trusted or mistrusted, however, they seem to contradict ...
  • Ghosts Through Their Outer Senses
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    IF I SEE A GHOST ARE MY SENSES TO BLAME? To complement the full apprehension of the terms which will be used throughout this argument, a number of meanings taken from The Lexicon Webster Dictionary is provided: GHOST The soul or spirit of a dead person. A disembodied spirit. HALLUCINATION (pay) an apparent perception, as by sight or hearing, for which there is no real external cause, as distinguished from illusionILLUSIONA false impression or belief. False perception or conception of some object...
  • Esp As Extra Sensory Perception
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    Extra Sensory Perception Everyone knows about the five senses. Taste: the sense that allows us to enjoy an essential part of life, eating. Hearing: the sense that enables us to carry a conversation with each other. Sight: without this we not be able to do things we take for granted, like driving for instance. Touch: this detects pain and prevents us from injuring ourselves further. Smell: this helps us identify hazardous chemicals which stops us from burning our lungs. But what about a sixth sen...
  • Perception Of Physical Objects
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    Reality Is Perception Human reality is full of physical objects but how humans perceive these objects is completely objective, depending on the person and there senses. Perception of physical objects cannot occur without other objects that allow one to perceive these manifestations in the first place. When a sentient being acknowledges that they 'exist in a world of physical objects', they also confirm that their sense perception functions to an extent which allows them to reason, even to a smal...
  • Optical Illusions And Other False Visual Perceptions
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    Senseless: A False Sense of Perception I feel as though I have no choice but to be a skeptic about our ability to know the world on the sense experience given the information that is being presented. Our senses are touching, hearing, smelling and tasting, I believe it is quite possible that a person could think they see, touch, and smell something such as a glass of bear but there be no glass of beer present, therefore their perception of this glass of beer is false. There is a good possibility ...
  • Cartesian Doubt 3 Through The Senses
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    In his first meditation, Descartes sets out with amazing clarity and persistence to clear himself of every false idea that he has acquired previous to this, and determine what he truly knows. To rid him of these "rotten apples" he has developed a method of doubt with a goal to construct a set of beliefs on foundations which are indubitable. On these foundations, Descartes applies three levels of skepticism, which in turn, generate three levels at which our thoughts may be deceived by error. Desc...
  • Aristotle's Theory Of Sense Perception
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    Introduction Aristotle's approach in describing sense perception in De Anima is in many ways similar to modern ones. He makes an attempt to explain all forms of perception - seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting - in purely physiological terms. Although he lacked our knowledge of nerve endings, ear drums, retinas etc., having instead the rather primitive view that the sense organs are made of earth, air, water and fire, his overall description of how we perceive things in the physical ...

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