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Should the Sixth Sense be Thought since Ideas are Things?
Either ideas are created by you, or they are just being perceived trough the process rationalization. The belief in Platonic forms would support my theory; that through thought you can be aware of the outside world (of forms / ideas).
Ideas exist on their own and perceiving them by thought makes it your sixth sense.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavourite answer
Thought also moves ideas, so it wouldn't be a sense, or at least it wouldn't be just a sense. Senses don't act on the objects of their perception as a part of their function, thoughts do.
- D.W.Lv 41 decade ago
No, no, you have this all wrong. First, the sixth sense of humans is proprioception; how we keep track of where our arms and legs, fingers and toes are, and what they might be doing. It is normally hidden from us because it is both unconscious and so automatic.
Second, Perception is not automatic or unconscious, and Thought is a whole different animal, a product of your mind. Perceiving things is no art, you have only to open your mind to the wavelengths. Thinking requires effort, redirection of energy, or only useless imaginings remain.
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- Phoenix QuillLv 71 decade ago
The 'Sixth' sense is already defined... essentially it is Telepathy or some consequence thereof, such as insight to future events through access to the collective unconsciousness.
Plato is an idiot. The Forms posit plurality without necessity.
