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and now for some final thoughts on
coming to our
senses we're born with five senses you
know each one of them we hear smell
touch see and taste the world around us
these are the five and the only five
ways we obtain information in spite of
the praise they receive our senses are
incomplete for example we have no
built-in way to register magnetic fields
or radioactivity
and we're practically blind when you
consider all the forms of light we
cannot see including infrared
ultraviolet and radio waves even though
they're all around us and often our five
senses are just plain
unreliable iwitness testimony though
High evidence in the court of law is the
lowest form of evidence in the court of
science when we declare a food to be
bitter or sweet we hardly ever recognize
that it's an opinion derived from our
genetic profile more typically we
wrongly presume these features to be
intrinsic properties of what we tasted
that's why it's hard to do science
equipped with only our senses the most
successful fields of research are those
rich in the methods and tools of
measurement that do not depend on the
genes of who's doing the
measuring in this way scientists reveal
fundamental truths about the universe
allowing us to decode and even ICT the
operations of nature otherwise if all
you have are your five senses then all
you have are your
opinions and that is the cosmic
perspective