Life and senses

Life can, in some way, be quantified in the from of senses. The amount of senses we have is directly proportional to the amount of life we have left in us. That is the precise difference between a dead body and us. We have five senses – touch, sight, hearing, taste and smell. These are the only things with which we can interact with the external world. Our brain is mostly engaged in deciphering the information given to it by the sensory organs. This is the same thing with other organisms. The only difference between human and other organisms is the sense of self awareness, thinking. For now, let us call it a sixth sense. But let us not talk about it just yet.

Let’s see the perspectives with the help of a tree for a moment. Trees have very limited senses. They can’t decipher a lot of things that we can. The can’t see human beings. But still, trees have to go through the effects imposed by human beings on them. Had they some thinking power, how would their logic work? They can’t see a reason of a branch being cut, but they feel that it is cut. Would they blame it on what we call luck? We understand the things better than many other life forms on this earth because we have “the sixth sense”.

That brings us closer to definition of luck. We tend to say something happened because of luck if we can not find a logical reasoning to it. Or, if we can’t get enough information to logically justify that thing happened. Or, we had less amount of senses to gather that information required to explain the reasoning behind the so-called lucky thing that happened.

That brings us to another question. Are we all there is to the universe? Is there a more superior set of senses (and hence life) in the universe? Let’s probe a little more into this.

What is sense? Sense is a way to understand a particular event or signal. We can understand some frequencies by our ears and some other frequencies by our eyes. I can’t particularly define touch, smell or taste in terms of frequency or anything but we know they have their own limitations too. For example, we can’t really feel the touch of still air around us (though there are a lot of air molecules hitting us every moment). If we accept our limitations, it is perfectly logical that there can exist a thing which is superior to us in terms of senses. It seems perfectly possible that we might not have enough senses to gather information to prove existence of such superior thing. Plus, we can’t logically deny that the superior thing is controlling us when we say something happened because of “luck”.