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Sentient by Jackie Higgins, 2022

How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses

Perfect for fans of The Soul of an Octopus and The Genius of Birds, this revelatory book explores how we process the world around us through the lens of the incredible sensory capabilities of thirteen animals, revealing that we are not limited to merely five senses.

#books
#nonfiction
#animals
#senses
#AnimalPerception

Adrian Segar Nov 17

Music is important in my life. I want to sing along when the spirit moves me and feel the intense emotions that music has the power to grant.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2018/10/the-importance-of-music-in-our-lives

#music #importance #emotions #memories #senses #GrowingOld

Fenris Lorsrai Nov 8

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2025/science-and-engineering/se/research-first-to-show-humans-have-remote-touch-seventh-sense-like-sandpipers.html

A study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have. #science #touch #senses #perception

Writers Digest (unofficial)Nov 7

Writing Scenes With Your Senses https://www.writersdigest.com/writing-scenes-with-your-senses #WriteBetterNonfiction #WriteBetterFiction #PersonalWriting #WritingScenes #SceneBuilding #writingscenes #Description #Memoir #Senses #scene

Writing Scenes With Your Senses

Author Wendy B. Correa discusses the importance of writing scenes with your senses, including how to do so effectively.

Writer's Digest

C. L. Nichols Nov 5

https://medium.com/storyangles/collect-moments-instead-of-things-26af7cd59918

Collect Moments Instead of Things
Measure Happiness Through Sensory Experiences.

#mindfulness #medium #happiness #senses #life #MomentsThatMatter #moments

Collect Moments Instead of Things

Measure Happiness Through Sensory Experiences.

Medium

Philo Sophies Oct 27

❓What if the world you see is only a fraction of #reality? 👁 🌌

Our #senses do not show us objective #reality—they create it. #WolfSinger in the new #Zoomposium: Our #brain constructs a four-dimensional reality from sensory data—but beyond that lies a world that we cannot (yet) comprehend.

📽 https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

#Perception #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #Cognition #Neurophilosophy