CHAPTER 3
An understanding of the senses and how they function have been transcendental issues throughout history. Great philosophical and scientific debates have raged for centuries concerning the question of deciding how many senses we have. Even now, we haven’t found a convincing answer to this controversy. Can we at least classify them? Do we know how they relate to each other? What is taste? These questions, and more besides, assail us. Adopting a meticulous approach, we can explain the classical path of sensory perception, in which a sensory organ encodes sensory stimuli into electrochemical impulses that are transported to the brain to be processed, generating what we call “perception”.
