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We feel through the senses. When we are sensing, we generate information of different types: tactile, visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory. These information is composed into experience. We feel with the gut and the heart too, creating visceral information. We feel and sense at the same time. Sensing is composed into a complex experience which we call feeling. A "feeling" may be then the intensified meta experience of juxtaposed sensing information. We feel the texture of an object and the experience can transport us to the realm of memory: we feel the present, the past and we may feel the future too. | We feel through the senses. When we are sensing, we generate information of different types: tactile, visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory. These information is composed into experience. We feel with the gut and the heart too, creating visceral information. We feel and sense at the same time. Sensing is composed into a complex experience which we call feeling. A "feeling" may be then the intensified meta experience of juxtaposed sensing information. We feel the texture of an object and the experience can transport us to the realm of memory: we feel the present, the past and we may feel the future too. | ||
If one ponders on the question on how to feel things, one may land at a subsequent question: How to know things or how is that one creates knowledge about things? <blockquote>"Epistemology is the theory of knowledge. It is concerned with the mind's relation to reality. What is it for this relation to be one of knowledge? Do we know things? And if we do, how and when do we know things?"<ref>https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/philosophy/research/themes/epistemology#:~:text=Epistemology | If one ponders on the question on how to feel things, one may land at a subsequent question: How to know things or how is that one creates knowledge about things? <blockquote>"Epistemology is the theory of knowledge. It is concerned with the mind's relation to reality. What is it for this relation to be one of knowledge? Do we know things? And if we do, how and when do we know things?"<ref>https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/philosophy/research/themes/epistemology#:~:text=Epistemology</ref></blockquote> | ||
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How to feel things?
We feel through the senses. When we are sensing, we generate information of different types: tactile, visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory. These information is composed into experience. We feel with the gut and the heart too, creating visceral information. We feel and sense at the same time. Sensing is composed into a complex experience which we call feeling. A "feeling" may be then the intensified meta experience of juxtaposed sensing information. We feel the texture of an object and the experience can transport us to the realm of memory: we feel the present, the past and we may feel the future too.
If one ponders on the question on how to feel things, one may land at a subsequent question: How to know things or how is that one creates knowledge about things?
"Epistemology is the theory of knowledge. It is concerned with the mind's relation to reality. What is it for this relation to be one of knowledge? Do we know things? And if we do, how and when do we know things?"[1]