Should We Trust Our Senses?

Senses are needed in almost all the cases of daily life and without them living would be hard to picture. Humans have five senses, to smell, to hear, to taste, to feel and to see. ... Even though we cannot say our senses are trustable, it is all we have, and therefore we trust them.

Do our senses deceive us?

Unfortunately, our senses deceive us — badly. They are showing us a very limited world. For starters, we learned that our eyes and other senses perceive only a tiny fraction of our physical existence. ...

Why should we believe our senses?

Experience that has been done with our senses previously lets us know that something is not working quietly good. Our actual senses convey the physical world to the extent they can do it without being tricked – they are mechanisms, they do not understand and interpret, they give us complete information.