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The document discusses how humans gather empirical evidence through their five senses and nervous system. It notes that sight, sound, smell, taste and touch provide sensory input that is processed by the brain. Everyday experiences and observations can also be considered a form of empirical evidence, as they influence personality and decision-making. Repeated positive experiences with something, like enjoying a restaurant, help build empirical evidence in the mind.

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Psy 1504 DF Unit1

The document discusses how humans gather empirical evidence through their five senses and nervous system. It notes that sight, sound, smell, taste and touch provide sensory input that is processed by the brain. Everyday experiences and observations can also be considered a form of empirical evidence, as they influence personality and decision-making. Repeated positive experiences with something, like enjoying a restaurant, help build empirical evidence in the mind.

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Hello everyone! Nyan here!

What parts of our bodies do we rely upon when gathering empirical evidence?

I think we rely on all sorts of our body parts when gathering empirical evidence. We use our
five senses to connect our mind and the outside world. They see, hear, smell, taste, touch
and report back to our brains to process the information into empirical evidence. To be more
precise, we use the nervous system divided into the central nervous system “brain, spinal
cord”; and the peripheral nervous system is “mainly composed of nerves”; are long fibers or
axons that connect the central nervous system to all parts of the body. There is a saying
“Seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth.” (Thomas Fuller,17th century). People usually
hard to believe in something until they see it or experience it through their sensation. In fact,
this is how science is improved. Scientists need to prove the facts through human sensation
so that human can believe in science. However, we can only gather those empirical
evidences through our sensations while we are conscious. Our higher brain functions allow
us to ignore certain sensory input during sleep. Since there is no sensory input, we usually
cannot gather empirical evidence.

Would you consider your day to day living experience and observations as part of
empirical evidence? Why?

I can consider my experiences and observations of everyday life as part of the empirical
evidence. Our environment and daily life experiences during childhood influence our
personality, outlook, and attitudes for the rest of our lives. This is a natural part of our
biology and basic thinking. We build knowledge based on our experience. From a young
age, we absorb and try to imitate the things around us. We like to do something that brings
us joy and we try to avoid something that makes us miserable. This is the same as Sigmund
Freud's principle of pain and pleasure. Our actions and decisions are based on this
principle. You go to a restaurant. You check the menu and prices reasonable. And you taste
the food and it's delicious. There is good customer service and you like the restaurant. And
then you love to eat at this restaurant again and again. In this way, your brain will remember
the empirical evidence “This restaurant is a good restaurant” in your mind. This is an
example of how we gather empirical evidence from our everyday life experiences.

References

- Michael Bullock, Lisa Roundy. “What is Empirical Evidence?”. Study.com.


Retrieved from https://study.com/learn/lesson/empirical-data-examples.

- OpenStax College (2017). Psychology 2e. Houston, Rice University.

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