Senseless: A False Sense Of Perception

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Term Paper Title	Senseless: A False Sense Of Perception
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Senseless: A False Sense of Perception

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 perceiving
things which are not real such as pink elephants, green rats, gold skin and so
on. Hallucinations may occur when pressure is applied to different sections,
drawing different  reactions from the person being affected, these reactions are
caused by the affected person seeing things which they perceive to be real .
Hallucinations are only one way by which the visual perception of an object can
be altered there are many more ways by which the visual perception of an object
can be altered; for example consider a square envelope, pay very close attention
to what you see when you look at this object. If the envelope does not move but
you do then your perception of this object will continually change  as you move
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