Importance Of Sense Perception

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Sense perception is the most fundamental and primary way we gain knowledge of the outside world. It is the only way of knowing that obtains knowledge of the external world. Therefore, it is crucial to critically examine it as it is used in many areas of knowledge and interlinked with many other ways of knowing. In this essay, I will be using the following definitions to debunk the given question. Perception defines as the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. Sense as a noun, is a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch; as a verb, is to be aware of (something) without being able to define exactly how one knows. However, some believe that we have more than five senses, equilibrioception- sense of balance, nociception-sense of pain, chronoception-sense of time, etc. Hence, sense perception is how our body perceives external stimulus, thus being aware or conscious of something through the use of our senses. Lastly, reliable is to be consistently in good quality or performance; able to be trusted or believed. The perceptual process can be broken down into 7 parts- environmental stimulus, attended stimulus, transduction, neural processing, perception, recognition, and action. The environmental stimulus consists of everything in our environment that has the potential to be observed. Attended stimulus is the object of focus in the environment, in which is formed