Sensual cognition of the surrounding world

From the first seconds of life, external stimuli of the outside world start acting on us - light, noise, taste, smell. Thus begins our sensory cognition of the surrounding world from the contact of our sensory feelings with external stimuli. This is how we create images of the world in our brains, which constitute a picture of perception.

Sensory feelings

We have five sensory feelings that allow us to realize sensual knowledge of the world and to make kind of "molds", "photographs", and any other prints of external objects in our head:

If one of the sensory senses is lost, others become more sensitive and try to compensate for the loss of the missing feeling. By the way, the quality of our sensory perception depends on training, that is, we can develop a sensual level of cognition.

Perceptions of perception are different

At the same time, different people perceive the same subject differently. A philosopher looking at an aquarium with fish will think about the fact that we are all slaves of our glass walls, the economist will calculate whether it is profitable to breed this type of fish, and the zoologist will talk about the physiological characteristics - the structure of the fins, the behavior of the individual in his society, the image of food / needs of the animal.

Therefore, the perception of the world largely depends on the knowledge, experience, way of thinking of each individual person.

Images

Any object of our world has many characteristics, and we can create in response to its properties not one image. The images are the acid or sweetness of an apple, its color, flavor, softness or hardness. All this in its entirety and is a perception .

However, the sensory stage of cognition can not exist without objects. Objects without images in our brain exist, but there are no images without objects. For example, the jungle. In the world there can be a jungle, regardless of whether we know about their existence or not, but their image in the brain is directly related to their presence in the world.

In addition, the subject is more perfect than its image. Therefore, we can repeatedly watch the same movie, and each time to open some new, previously unseen detail. And for this very reason, thinking and sensory cognition must be inseparable companions in the life of man. After sensory senses, we perceive individual things, objects, phenomena, and thinking makes it possible to know the essence of things, the laws of nature and the universe, to dig deeper than the ordinary characteristics of objects.