Perception, the Senses, and Reality

Our sensory input shapes both our perception and our perspective of our reality. We have five physical senses that allow us to detect our external reality, come to an understanding of it, and interact with our external reality as well as those people outside of ourselves and communicate with other conscious beings.

    If our senses are intact and operate relatively effectively, we have the well rounded, diverse human experience. The colors, the music, the feelings, the tastes, the scents. Having all of our senses working gives us the full experience of our world, the only one we know without a doubt exists.

      Our perception is driven by our senses, and although we share commonalities with each other across the board as a species, our perceptions, as well as our preferences, with what we detect with our senses differs sometimes slightly and sometimes greatly with each individual. 

      Though we all have common senses that detect common stimuli in the world, each person interprets the information differently and forms a different perspective on the stimuli or situation. This could possibly be based on neurology. 

           The structure of the brain and neurons most likely have a significant affect on things like personality and perception, and these things impact preference, excitability, interest, and arrousal to certain sensory stimuli. 

Each person's brain is as unique as their fingerprints, and no two people have entirely the same neural wiring or brain structure.

        On top of that, every human being has a unique experience, ranging from the family they are born into, their successes and failures, their dreams and desires, their trauma both emotional, and physical. Even what you eat and what kind of chemicals you ingest have a pretty serious impact on your brains development and your mental health, for better or for worse. Even the type of physical sicknesses you get over a lifetime affect your brain. All these things affect perception.

         Perception has an interesting interaction with ideas and beliefs. Your perception and your sensory intake has a profound effect on your beliefs and ideas about reality, but in a strange turn-around, your beliefs and ideas have a profound effect on your perception and your interpretation of your senses. This shows that belief systems have a massive impact on how you see the world and how you interpret your senses. 

       This doesn't mean all beliefs are completely factual or validatible, it means that your mind will interpret reality based the ideological or belief-system foundation you construct your internal reality around, and as a result, what you believe shapes to a certain degree your perception and interpretation of reality, and inversely your perception very much helps shape your belief.

     A core component of reality for a human being is sensation and perception. Without these, our existence would have no senses and would be a dark, bland place, devoid of any meaningful experience for a conscious entity like a human.