Senses - poll

[Jeremiah Ames]

We have 5 senses, that can interact with the world.


Is everything that creates our life associated with these?

In other words, are our senses what gives us life?

1. I am a theist, and I say yes.
2. I am a theist, and I say no.
3. I am an atheist, and I say yes.
4. I am an atheist, and I say no.

If you say no, then what is life?

 

[Kenny]

We have 5 senses, that can interact with the world.


Is everything that creates our life associated with these?

In other words, are our senses what gives us life?

1. I am a theist, and I say yes.
2. I am a theist, and I say no.
3. I am an atheist, and I say yes.
4. I am an atheist, and I say no.

If you say no, then what is life?

Sense, IMV, enhances our physical life but life itself if spiritual and separate from our senses.

Like unto this, though I haven't verified all the info because of time:
people-who-were-resuscitated-recall-what-happened-while-they-were-clinically-dead

 

[sun rise]

Our senses are the way our egos experience the world. They are not primary.

 

[The Hammer]

We have 5 senses, that can interact with the world.


Is everything that creates our life associated with these?

In other words, are our senses what gives us life?

1. I am a theist, and I say yes.
2. I am a theist, and I say no.
3. I am an atheist, and I say yes.
4. I am an atheist, and I say no.

If you say no, then what is life?

I voted theist, yes.

Our thoughts do not NEED physical senses, though. But our mind is not distinct from our body, and our senses enhance our perception of the material plane we inhabit currently, thereby coloring it with life.

 

[Subduction Zone]

If you lost all of your senses today you would still be alive. Your heart would keep beating, you would hopefully keep breathing. It would be a life but it would be a very very lonely one. If one did not have sense from birth then if though one would be a mass of living tissue it is hard to see how the mind could develop. I do not propose doing any experiments to find out.

 

[Mock Turtle]

As above. If we had no senses at all what would we be? How could we learn anything, born without any senses, since babies are not born with knowledge even if they might be born with predispositions? The baby might be clinically alive but as to consciousness - who knows.

 

[Nakosis]

We have 5 senses, that can interact with the world.


Is everything that creates our life associated with these?

In other words, are our senses what gives us life?

1. I am a theist, and I say yes.
2. I am a theist, and I say no.
3. I am an atheist, and I say yes.
4. I am an atheist, and I say no.

If you say no, then what is life?

I don't know quite what you mean by life.

I guess maybe awareness of existing?
I don't know without our senses what we could be aware of.

Our senses create the experience of existing. I suspect the ability to sense the world gave rise to consciousness.
Our senses are both internal and external. Like when we feel ourselves breathing.
When these senses are removed, like under heavy anesthesia there is no sense of existence.
I'd have to say our senses are necessary for life as we know it.

However we consider a blade of grass alive. Does that mean it has some sense of it's environment?

 

[pearl]

I don't think they give us life, but interpret for us.

 

[ChristineM]

I voted "I am an atheist, and I say no.".
Does a bacteria have senses? How about a nanobe? They certainly have life. I cannot imagine what human life without senses would be like. Sensory deprivation can be used as a torture technique so i guess it's not very nice

 

[We Never Know]

I voted "I am an atheist, and I say no.".
Does a bacteria have senses? How about a nanobe? They certainly have life. I cannot imagine what human life without senses would be like. Sensory deprivation can be used as a torture technique so i guess it's not very nice

Although bacteria have no sensory organs in the classical sense, they are still masters in perceiving their environment. A research group has now discovered that bacteria not only respond to chemical signals, but also possess a sense of touch.

Bacteria have a sense of touch.

 

[Laika]

Voted "I am an atheist, and I say yes".

Not quite sure what you mean by "gives us life", but sense-perception is absolutely critical to any form of consciousness, as interpreted and contained within the brain and the central nervous system.

 

[Jeremiah Ames]

I don't know quite what you mean by life.

I guess maybe awareness of existing?
I don't know without our senses what we could be aware of.

Our senses create the experience of existing. I suspect the ability to sense the world gave rise to consciousness.
Our senses are both internal and external. Like when we feel ourselves breathing.
When these senses are removed, like under heavy anesthesia there is no sense of existence.
I'd have to say our senses are necessary for life as we know it.

However we consider a blade of grass alive. Does that mean it has some sense of it's environment?

I liked your comments. Made me think.
I would call our experience on this earth “existence”, instead of life.
Because I think some dead people are walking around. I mean dead to what should be considered as life. (That would make an interesting topic)
So, yes, I guess I see “dead” people.

Like you said, when senses are cut off, our awareness of existence is cut off.