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CONVENTIONAL WISDOM in the West holds that the senses are "windows on the world." We look out through our eyes, hear what is happening with our ears, touch what is near to us through touch receptors on the skin, taste with our tongue, smell with our noses. Normally we speak of five senses, but the list sometimes gets longer, including an interior "proprioceptive" sense, the mind as a sense organ, and perhaps telepathic or precognitive senses as well.

In the Western view, our senses are mainly receptors of stimuli from outside the body. The metaphor of the window is ...

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