{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93a/1905-10-31/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we study our sense organs as they are usually studied, we see that we have the possibility through the sense of smell of perceiving matter itself. Unless this fine substance were given off, man would be unable to smell. What takes place here is a connection with matter itself. The organ of taste is not connected with matter itself, but acts through a process of dissolving and perceiving its effect. Thus we can call taste a chemical sense, because it penetrates into the constitution of matter. The third sense that of sight, has nothing more to do with matter, for it only perceives pictures that are produced by matter. The fourth, the sense of touch, has still less to do with matter as such, for it only perceives attributes of the surroundings in connection with objects, such as warmth and cold; this is a state of matter which is no longer dependent on matter itself, but on what conditions surround it. Hearing is in no way dependent on the air, for we perceive only the oscillations, the vibrations of the air, something which stands in a quite external relationship to what is material. Matter, the air, is only the vehicle for the sound waves.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXVIII","site_heading":"Cosmic Evolution of Human Senses and Consciousness","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Den Geschmack können wir also einen chemischen Sinn nennen, weil er in die Beschaffenheit des Stoffes eindringt. Der dritte Sinn, das Gesicht, hat gar nichts mehr mit Stoff zu tun, denn er nimmt nur Bilder wahr, die vom Stoffe entworfen sind. Der vierte, der Tastsinn, hat noch viel weniger mit dem, was Stoff ist, zu tun, da er nur Eigenschaften der Umgebung an den Gegenständen, wie Wärme und Kälte, wahrnimmt; das ist ein Zustand des Stoffes, der hängt nicht mehr vom Stoffe selbst ab, sondern davon, welcher Zustand ringsherum ist. Das Gehör hängt gar nicht von der Luft ab, denn wir nehmen nur die Schwingungen der Luft, die Vibrationen wahr, dasjenige, was durchaus in einer zum Materiellen ganz äußerlichen Beziehung steht. 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