Senseless: A False Sense of Perception
I feel as though I have no choice but to be a skeptic about our ability
to know the world on the sense experience given the information that is being
presented.
Our senses are touching, hearing, smelling and tasting, I believe it is
quite possible that a person could think they see, touch, and smell something
such as a glass of bear but there be no glass of beer present, therefore their
perception of this glass of beer is false. There is a good possibility that
this person is suffering from any of the numerous possible sensations, auditory,
visual or tactile, experienced without external stimulus and caused by mental
derangement, intoxication or fever, in other words this person could be
hallucinating.
There are many ways that the senses can be tricked into believing things
that are not true, an example is when a person takes the drug LSD, this drug is
one which alters the state of the mind and tricks it into visually......
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