Sensory Input Quotes

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.

The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.

The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle.

In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

The eye will have his part.

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it