The Comparison Of Mind: The Five Senses Of The Mind

Human beings have five senses; sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. In “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato, he points out that humans have a limitation on reality because of these sensory apprehensions. Then, in “Oedipus Complex” by Freud, he regards the unconscious as the primary part of the mind. Both writers view the unconscious mind as the part that can comprehend the “whole reality”. "Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality– ST. THOMAS AQUINAS”. The dream world represents the level of reality that is impossible to reach because of the limitations of the waking mind. Human beings depend on their senses to tell them what is there and what is not. Some believe only what their eyes show

”At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive someone saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision—what will be his reply(869)”? Sensory apprehensions limit what people believe because they are not willing to open their eyes to anything else. To them, what they see, feel, hear, taste, and smell is what exists and nothing else. These people are very fact oriented, unless it is proved from a trustworthy source otherwise. “For the human understanding is obnoxious to the influence of the imagination no less than to the influence of common notions(892)”. This quote from Bacon shows that it was not only Freud and Plato who thought that the human way of understanding things was mislead. Humans are sheep who follow the shepherd. Easily mislead by what we think we know to be true or