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Making Sense of Our World

Chasing Life

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The Purpose of the Sensual Bubble

Each of us is trapped in our own sensory bubble. We can perceive just this thin sliver of the fulness of reality. My unwelt includes a spectrum ranging from red to violet. A bees unwelt goes from green to ultra violet. Birds have a whole dimensionof colours that they can perceive and that we can't. And what's important, i think, is that nothing needs to sense everything. Through the course of evolution, our senses have evolved to give us exactly the kinds of information that we most need.

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