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The Five Human Senses: The Sense Of Perceptions

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The sense of Perception is the knowledge obtained throughout the frequent need of one of the five main human senses, such as taste, sight, hearing, smell or touch.
For example, if a tree falls in the middle of nowhere, and no one is around to hear it (including animals), that does not make it a sound (which basically is the wave movement of particles), because only animals and human beings can hear and perceive the movement of those particles through the hearing, as far as we know.
Only through this knowledge are our bodies capable of identifying a peripheral stimulation.
It acts as a Way of Knowing (WOK), as it is used to obtain useful, as well as essential information for ourselves.
Humans often make predictions, through the building of their …show more content…

They differentiate from each other, as the conscious proprioception is communicated from the spinal nerve (located in the Central Nervous System) to the brain; and finally, as the unconscious proprioception is communicated within the brain, and, therefore, make involuntary (or automatic) movements.
The main benefit of proprioception is the fact that it is directly related to inner-balance, and reflexes (involuntary responses of the body), which reveal a healthy body and mind, and, therefore, are advantageous and fundamental to humans.
The human body and its senses tend to fail quite frequently, and, therefore, many weaknesses are evident. Our senses are easily tricked, manipulated, influenced by the environment and context, as well as very limited.
Optical illusions occur almost every day, due to visually perceived images, distorted by our fragile sight.
The eye processes an image that is then sent to the brain, but the image ends up not being accurate, and tricks both the eye and brain. There are three types of optical illusions: literal, physiological and cognitive. The literal optical illusion is the most common during our daily

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