At 03:59 PM 9/25/2008, you wrote:
[Marsha]
There are six senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste and
mind. Perceptual awareness may be of a mental pattern. These six
senses of perception seem to cover everything.
[Krimel]
The number of senses is a bit arbitrary. Them as several senses that get
lumped under touch: pain, proprioception, balance, and heat to name the most
obvious. But "mind" is most assuredly not a "sense".
Krimel,
You must have missed that when you were studying Buddhism.
Marsha
Sensation refers to the activation of the various receptor cells in our
bodies that convert energy from the environment, (light, motion and
chemistry) into nervous impulses.
Perception is an entirely different process but I often fear that people
here either do not understand or do not recognize the distinction.
Perception is, specifically, the process of making sense of the senses. It
is the mental process of organizing sense data into meaning. Perception is
the act of creating illusions.
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.........
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