- sensory systems
- What are their functions?
- How do they work?
- common sense
- individual senses
- receptors: chemical, light, mechanical
- localization
- perception and recognition
- a sense of time?
- How do they differ among the primates, especially humans?
- different functions?
- different structures?
- different phenomenal experience?
- For humans, we have three specific questions:
- loss of sensitivity of smell?
- adaptations for speech perception?
- how does our consciousness or phenomenal experience differ from a chimp's?
- How and why did they evolve that way?
- external
- hearing
- vision (depth, acuity, color, recognition)
- touch
- smell
- taste
- time
- circadian
- interval
- consciousness?