The thing is that we don't feel the object itself but rather our reaction to its actions and influence. These reactions give us what seems to be knowledge, although the object itself, its essence remains hidden. More than that, we cannot even comprehend ourselves! Only actions and reactions is all that we know about ourselves.
Konrad Lorenz, an Biologist, once wrote a book named "Die Rückseite des Spiegels" ("The back side of the mirror"), in which he also sees this phenemon. We can observeourworld ONLY through our senses - I mean our things we have like tasting, touching, seeing and so on ...
Konrad Lorenz but on the other hand had the opinion that our "senses" (what I've described above) were developed by Evolution - therefore they are / were developed to fit the being (humans, for example, as like as Horses, Koalas, Flies, Crabs and so on) the best into a certain environment as possible.
Resulting in a high possibility that our "senses" were developed to match the real environment - in result meaning that the world actually is like we perceive it with our senses.
(I hope I made clear what I meant. I'm not sure, though.)
We had this book in Philosophy at school, and it higly influenced me - mainly because it sounds reasonable to me. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
But still - our senses are different from the senses of other animals. We build our view of the world on our senses - therefore our own view of the world if differenttly shaped from the view of an animal that for example has infrared vision or can use electricity as a sense.
Therefore we should still be careful ...
