We often credit the Greek philosopher Aristotle with defining the five categories of sense: sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. This is not the whole story. Depending on how we define the different categories, we might have as many as 53 senses. Generally speaking, a sense can be defin...
Our life appears to be true or real only until it’s examined more closely; we come to realise that it not complete, and our superficial knowledge lacks any depth of compassionate understanding. As long as we have toys to play with, we are superficially happy. ...
Yet we are, at the same time, human and finite: our senses, our intelligence, and our consciousness are probably as limited compared with the reality of existence as we are in size compared to the Universe’s girth. We see “through a glass, darkly.” We are incapable of knowing ...
The tenuous material which produces heat is even more subtle than that which causes odor, for the latter cannot leak through a glass container, whereas the material of heat makes its way through any substance. In 1620, Francis Bacon (1561–1626) (in his “update on A...
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