Sense organs are information-gathering systems in our body. Ten in all eight of them collect information from the external world through vision, hearing smell, taste, touch, warmth, cold, and pain. The other two senses maintain body equilibrium and provide information about the body position and movement of body parts relative to each other. These two are called deep senses, and are respectively known as vestibular and kinesthetic senses.
The sense organs serve dual functions for us: survival function and sensuality function. Our senses help us survive by sounding alarms of danger and priming us to take swift action to ward off hazards. Sensuality refers to the gratification of senses It involves enjoying the experiences that are appealing to the eye, the ear touch, taste, and smell. Our sense organs not only help us to have contact with our world, but also involve us in the richness of life’s experience.
Our eyes and ears are two vital sense organs of our body. We receive more than 3/4th of our sensory information through these two sense organs. In comparison to ears, our eyes receive more information. In fact, our two eyes are our windows into the world. As eyes are very valuable to a person, blindness is considered as a significant sensory loss. It is, therefore, important that we should know about the structure and sfunctions of our visual and auditor sense organs.