Beyond Ocular Vision: Investigating Whole-Body Perception and the Depth of Human Sensory Processing

This paper presents an investigation into the possibility that human perception operates through the whole living body rather than through the eyes and other conventionally isolated sensory systems alone.Human perception is commonly described through five principal sensory modalities, but that description is both useful and incomplete. The body did not begin as a brain-centred system. Life existed before nerves and brains, and living organisms have always responded to their surroundings through their entire material organisation. Nervous systems developed