To what extent is sense of perception an accurate way of knowing?

In my point of view, our sense of perception is an accurate way of knowing to the extent that one can see, smell, hear, taste and touch. I believe that without the perception of senses, we don’t learn anything as life would be impossible without them. In a way, all the five senses are inter-connected to learning something. For example, cooking, we use our sight to learn from television and we use our ears to listen to the instructions. We use our smell, taste and touch when cooking the food. Finally, one perfects the art of cooking. In other words, one learns cooking with an accurate sense of perception and the use of all five senses.

In Tok lesson, we saw a video of two teams passing the basketball, one team in white and the other in black where while we all are focusing on the number of times the ball was passed, we didn’t realize that a gorilla walks by, dances and we had no clue of it. It may be that my sight is not accurate however when we watch the video of the "best changing color card trick ever", we don’t see that the t-shirt colors of the host changes, the table cover changes and the back-ground changes too. This doesn’t mean that we doubt our sense of perception, all it is that our senses can focus on only one thing and not everything at once.

Though it is true that our senses can trick us, when we come to think of it, our senses keep us safe when there is a danger and as we grow up we learn to use it more accurately. Therefore, even though our senses are not accurate, our way of learning through them is definitely accurate.