Leash Of Our Senses

“We live on the leash of our senses.” - Diane Ackerman. To what extent do you agree with this statement? To understand the quote of Diane Ackerman I think a deeper explore into the word leash and senses is necessary. So, what is leash? Base on dictionary.com leash mean to secure, control, or restrain by. And as in for sense the author could refer it to many different senses such as: the five senses, sense of right and wrong, sense of pain, or sense of culture. With the understanding of what leash means and the type of sense the author may be refer to I began to wonder how does our senses influence our decision making and to what extent do our senses affect our emotions? First I would like to explore my first question “how do our senses influence

To make this claim more understandable a real life example of the claim will be seeing someone’s pain when they break a bone. Base on Livescience, when we see someone got hurt our brain will develop a condition called synesthesia. Synesthesia is a type of condition when our brain blending the sensation that are normally experience in a different form. In other words, our brain have the ability to use what we sense then proceed the same information on themselves to understand how other feel. Therefore, without our sense the synesthesia will never happen since the first-hand interaction had never been develope. In spite of that, some may also argue that our senses some time confuses our understanding of an information. A real life example of this counterclaim is an individual having a past experience of getting their bone broken. The person may experience through a severe pain which leads to a trauma and development of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) of the situation. Base on eMedicineHealth, PTSD patient often stimulate catecholamines hormones under normal condition (when the trauma is not present) and low level of cortisol. Overtime, the patients will began to develop further physical changes such as: heightened hearing, depression, panic attack, or negative changes in thinking and mood. Having said that, the trauma the person suffered may misinterpret the senses that they encounter with damage they had with their brain. I personally think both statement have a considerable statement, but I still think the claim is a more reasonable answer for the second question. The reason I pick the claim is because I think human need sence to process the detailed information, so our senses can help the brain to identify and create an imagined scenario; Without the