The Senses as Instruments of Communication

Abstract

Our senses are the instruments of communication that facilitate our relationship with the environment. They convey information and contribute to our appropriation of the environment by means of sensory impressions and experience: we can perceive, experience, recognize, evaluate, and design the environment and ourselves. Each sensory organ has a specific structure that enables it to respond to a specific sensory stimulation. Current sensory physiology and phenomenology describes the human-environment relationship as being based on twelve senses. These refer to three spatial categories: action, impression, and meaning.