Intelligence is not a requisite for survival, but being sensate is—plants are sensitive to light, moisture, and temperature. Lacking a brain, plants can react but not think, a function reserved to animals, who do make decisions and most often use their senses in making them. This program looks at the development of sensation, from the primitive sensitivity of a simple organism to the sophistication of perception in the human, and it looks at both the scientists and the philosophers who have contributed to our understanding of what the senses are. (60 minutes)

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