Between the podcast and the reading, I came to the
conclusion that from all five senses that the human possess listening is the
most reliable. In the podcast “Colors” one of the speakers mentioned that women
and men see different colors. Women have the ability to have trichromacies or tetrachromacy cone cells which can mean that they see more colors
that what a male can see. Relying on the ability to see varies for everyone.
Now when it comes to listening the person is more aware of what it is that they
are listening to. The sense of hearing can invoke the individual to think above
what is in front of them. In the reading of “How We Listen”, the author uses
the example of music. “Music expresses, at different moments, serenity, or exuberance,
regret or triumph, fury or delight.” (Copeland 1040). Music is created for
everyone to understand the same lyrics, hear the rhythm and can be better
interpreted than trying to explain why a color is the same to someone who views
it in a different way. It is hard to decide if one sense works better than the
others because our body is designed to rely on all these senses and use them to
together to be able to function correctly. The sense of listening can go both
ways especially if there is more than one person since they hear exactly what
you are being told. Trying to explain to another individual what you saw is
extremely difficult since that person may never see the colors one sees the
same.
All five senses help humans function, but sometimes the senses deceive us. The least trustworthy sense is our sight and the most trustworthy sense is our touch. Out of all five senses sight is the least trustworthy sense, because everyone sees things differently than everyone else. In the “Colors” podcast the speaker says “Colors we see are tricks of the imagination and there is no perfectly objected view of color,” Just like the blue or gold dress everyone’s eyes sees the same dress, but people’s eyes interpret the colors differently. Even our sense of hearing is not trustworthy because Copland says “Music doe have an expressive meaning but we cannot say in so many words what that meaning is,” (1041). People may hear the same things, but everyone interprets the sound differently. Our sense of touch is the most trustworthy because a majority of people would agree that something feels like what the previous person already said.
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