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Implied in the 14c definition of common sense is that the ordinary senses are reliable. What happens to our sensory functions when they are conditioned to a certain end only and therefore become unreliable? The purpose of the senses is to link the inner to the outer world. What happens when we lose the calibration of our instrument?
My old teacher used to say:
We look but we do not see.
We listen but we do not hear.
We touch but we do not feel.
Maybe in our electronic age our machines have become more reliable than we are; our sense of time is totally corrupted, our inner rhythms unbalanced.
So common sense, a natural function of human beings is no longer normal.
Posted by: S. Gokcen | 24 March 2011 at 01:54 PM