Friday, January 15, 2016

Philosophy Wire: Feel. Listen. Use your hand.

Enceladus and Tethys line up almost perfectly for Cassini’s cameras along with the Saturn's rings.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-01-15]: A new electronic skin can feel heat but also… hear sounds. [1] All the senses are one. All the senses transmit data via a medium. They all require “contact” (hearing requires contact with air, vision with light). And this unity can only imply one thing: That what we feel has a unified nature. We can only feel through touch. But when we are alone with what are we in touch? Somewhere in between stupid and boring questions, lies a magnificent truth…

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