All organisms encounter a specific kind of environment from the moment they are born. And every one of them has to be able to percieve that environment, take in information about it, and process that information in order to survive. There are no organisms that can or do exist in complete isolation from their environment and there never can be. ** In human beings, as in most animals, informational environmental inputs are processed through the sensory modalities all of us are familiar with: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell and feeling – which is similar to touch but different from emotion, i.e. How a place feels to you when you encounter … Continue reading Stephen Harrod Buhner