• The Philosophy of Humantics and the Six Senses That All Living Creatures Possess


    ---I would ask, 'How many senses do you believe we have?' and 'What defines a sense to you?' But since I will get no answers, I will give researched answers instead, or at least the common understanding of the answers.
    ---Many would believe we have five senses, those being sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. We define a sense commonly as "the faculty through which the external world is apprehended." Or simply put, it is something in which we use to interact and understand the world with.
    ---Now, throughout the ages, famous philosophers, whose names have withstood the hurricanes of time and the crumbling sands of a world before a world have said, time and again, that the senses are unreliable. Socrates and Plato, using the allegory of the cave, saying that we cannot rely upon 'our five senses' and that we cannot perceive the true world, that this world we see is only a shadow thereof. Later on, Descartes used the description of wax. When you interact with wax, your senses are telling you that it is wax, says he. You can touch, see, feel, hear, and taste that the object in front of you is wax. But when it is put under a flame, it becomes liquid. It no longer looks the same, sounds the same, or feels the same.
    ---It is at this point that your mind, your intellect interprets that it is still wax, that it has simply melted. The five senses therefore, says Descartes, are unreliable. But this is not true. Socrates, Plato, and Descartes were wrong on two fronts. We do not have simply five senses, but six, and furthermore, they are the very foundation in which we are able to survive, and therefore must be relied upon, and even more, are thusly so reliable.
    ---They were wrong, and I will explain why. It is certain that the sixth sense is the mind. A living creature needs both it's one mental sense, and it's five physical senses to function properly and perceive the world properly. The correlation between these two types of sense is important. Think simply of this: A mind without it's physical senses is useless. It cannot see, smell, touch, taste, or hear anything. It has no physical input upon the world, and thus, to the mind without physical sense, the world does not exist. In fact, without sensual input, without it's physical senses, it has had nothing to understand, and nothing to think of, therefore, without the five physical senses, the mind cannot even think.
    ---Now, think of this: The five senses without a mind are useless. They cannot send what they see, smell, touch, taste, or hear to a control center, and, like Descartes was correct in analyzing, cannot send their information to be interpreted. Thus, without a brain, without an interpretation of the world, they cannot see, smell, touch, taste or hear, since there is nothing to transform the light into images to be read, nothing to feel the pain, nothing to hear sounds and transform them into information.
    ---That is why we have six senses, why both the mental sense and the five physical sense are needed. All are things we use to interact with and furthermore, apprehend the world with. And that is the first basic principle of Humantic Philosophy; that we have six senses, that they are reliable, and that they must be relied upon in order for us to survive in this world.

    ~NT