acts as a sensor for light duration, allowing them to perceive changes in day length and trigger leaf growth. The ecosystem is entangled, the sensors we have for our sweat, our heat receptors, our saliva making...depending on what, they can work in similar ways...we are not so different. #Tree #System #Society #Senses #Ecology #Reimagining
This is such a lovely piece in Nautilus about the role of scent in a landscape, and also a very cool little dive into the natural perfume business. I love stories that take an everyday simple thing and explore it in a way I haven't read before. Katy Kelleher does that brilliantly here.
"Exhibiting the Sound of History": upcoming Leibniz museum conference in Hamburg. #SoundStudies #SoundHistory #museum #senses #sensoryStudies #hearing #histodons
A quotation from Nietzsche, Friedrich:
«
Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.
[Blitz und Donner brauchen Zeit, das Licht der Gestirne braucht Zeit, Thaten brauchen Zeit, auch nachdem sie gethan sind, um gesehen und gehört zu werden.]
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/nietzsche-friedrich/72997/
Why So Many People Need Glasses Now (A 
NEW, free, 7-minute video)
Tags: #Senses #Parenting #Body
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/myopia_vox
Here’s an interesting article in #QuantaMagazine about advances in our understanding of how small animals like #honeybees sense and use electrostatic forces.
I like research like this that emphasises that what people sense as "normal" is very much a result of our scale.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-world-of-electrostatic-ecology-20240930/
#science #biology #nature #insects #pollinators #senses
Blind Sports (A free, 24-minute podcast from 2021)
Tags: #Sports #Body #Senses
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/blind-sports_20khtz
I had 4 days of cold symptoms before losing my sense of taste/smell. I tested negative after 2 days of symptoms but re-tested once I noticed that nothing tasted normal -- positive on day 4.
There isn't anything pleasant about having a sore throat or sniffles. Not having my sense of smell or taste is absolutely miserable though. I sniff the flowers on my morning dog walk. I savor each bite of food when I eat. I cannot live my life fully without these senses. I am bereft.
#RodolfoLlinas - What Makes #Brains #Conscious?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KypTyOKI-8I
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfBiology #Biology #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #Brain #Brains #Neuroscience #Cell Cells #Qualia #Awareness #Intentionality #Feeling #Senses #Emergence #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
The Cessation of Karma (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2000)
Tags: #Karma #Senses #BuddhaQuotes
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/sn35.146
Got you in my sight
No way to look away now
An eye for an eye
#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Eye #See #Sight #Look #Senses #Hamurabi #Sexy #America #World #Green #Iris
June 9, 2024
Here's a piece exploring Aristotle's views on what the virtue of temperance involves and extends to. Unlike many other ancient thinkers, he narrows its scope considerably.
https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/aristotles-unduly-restrictive-virtue
#Aristotle #Virtue #Temperance #Desire #Pleasure #Senses #Food #Sex #Intoxication
「AI expanded the Descartes portrait. I don't know what I expected, but it definitely wasn't this.」
Credit: @scifisunsets via <https://www.reddit.com/r/trippinthroughtime/comments/1cjpgvr/dont_be_putting_descartes_before_the_oh/>
@jimsalter <https://fosstodon.org/@jimsalter/112242379015710408>
@MatteoCarandini <https://mastodon.social/@MatteoCarandini/112146599715024832> @benjamingeer
#Descartes #animalspirits #legs #radical #science #neuroscience #brain #wake #sleep #dream #senses #memory #imagination #passion #1637 #IthinkthereforeIam #Stanford #WilliamDement #medicine
3 hours silent work in #Library was bliss. Then decided to treat myself to a cappucino so popped into shopping centre next door. Holy moly the assault on my #Senses was immediate and intense.
Thank goodness I had my #Loops or I would now be a dysregulated mess.
@actuallyautistic
#Autistic
With the average person’s screen time now nearly seven hours a day, and much of that time spent indoors, our overreliance on #sight and #sound has only intensified.
But given that humans are animals with five (or arguably many more) #senses, are we 
neglecting our other faculties, and what is it doing to us?
