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lost person or an object, and detect ground water
or underground pipes, aside from some harmful
possible actions linked to black magic or voodoo.
Other persons use sticks of wood, stone, ivory or
metal to channel energy in the vicinity of water-
courses, and detect possible water resources under
ground. People prove their faculties in a pragmatic,
matter-of-fact way, no matter what are the results
of scientific assessment. There is also the U.S.
Psychotronics Association founded in 1975 for
people interested in the study of psychotronics - the
science of mind-body-environment relationships.
Some hold that we use our senses poorly. For
example, we are apt to develop electronic devices
for gathering data about our external and internal
environment, and patients usually receive medical
examination obtained through the use of instru-
ments, meters, and various kinds of laboratory
equipment. In contrast with the teachings of an-
cient medicine that trained Chinese, Babylonian,
Egyptian, or Greek physicians to feel and recognize
symptoms through palpation, for example discern
eighteen to thirty six types of pulse corresponding
to particular diseases (Kaptchuk, 2000), present-
day doctors not so often touch sick people to gain
an insight coming from the careful examination
of physiological condition of the patient's skin or
from feeling their pulse. While we are happy we
have so many options and do not have to rely on
doctors' sensory information, many would agree
that giving more attention to our faculties coming
from the senses would enhance to a great extent
our connection with the world and condition of
communicating with others. Many artists are
fully aware of this challenge and do their best to
combine digital technologies with artistic means
of expression.
cognitive processes as solving problems or making
decisions. Sensibility enable us appreciate percep-
tions and sensory input, as well as contributions
coming from cognitive thought material, so we can
feel and understand things deeply. Sensibility helps
us see and react to our own and others' aesthetic,
emotional, or complex cognitive processes, and
makes our responsiveness acute.
With sensibility, we can receive information
about others' perception. Therefore we can take
advantage of many ways to communicate not only
by speaking or writing but also by using nonverbal
means such as images (for instance signs, posters,
or pictures), sounds (speech or music, for example),
gestures (everyday expression through bodily ac-
tions with which we enhance our statements, mudra
gestures in Hinduism and Buddhism), or artistic
forms such as actor's gestures, body language and
motions, among other possibilities. For more than
seventy years Dorothy's powerful ruby slippers
from the 1939 MGM musical fantasy film
The
Wizard of Oz
based on the novel
The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz
written in 1901 by L. Frank Baum
(Baum et al., 2000) maintain their iconic status.
The way Dorothy tapped her heels together became
a time-based kind of a symbol. Remembering the
significance of nonverbal means of communication
is of utmost importance because we are constantly
immersed in interactive contact with others through
social networking that uses multimedia as a way to
convey information through various combinations
of content forms such as still images, animation,
video clips, or interactive media.
One may say musicians, fine artists, performance
artists, and physicians concerned with human brain
and psychology, as well as many attentive, creative,
intellectually gifted partners and productive work-
ers are seen as sensible individuals. Ken Bernstein
(2005), who performs automatic drawing on any
occasion, created doodle-based artwork that was
selected for a wall that insulates residential buildings
from traffic noise and dust on a busy street in Boul-
der, Colorado. According to Bernstein, automatic
drawing follows a sensibility rather than a thought
Sensibility
In cognitive terms, sensibility to internal and
external signals enhances our mental processes,
focusing our attention, supporting remembering
things, enhancing knowledge, and stimulating such
