Ecosystems Quote by David Abram

As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

In the traditionally taught view of perception, data from the sensorium pours into the brain, works its way up the sensory hierarchy, and makes…

— David Eagleman

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

— Pliny the Elder

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

— Samuel Alexander

“We have six sense organs that can be in contact with the world outside, and with all the “worlds” inside. The six organs are…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is…

— István Aranyosi

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

— Anais Nin

Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense…

— John Dryden

“According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and…

— Cruce Stark

I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses…

— David Mason

“As information processing machines, our ability to process data about the external world begins at the level of sensory perception. Although most of us…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

— Carlos Castaneda