[Biology] Should there be more than five senses?

We all know the common ones of course:

Sight,
Sound,
Touch,
Taste and arguably
Smell.

Why do we not have more than these? Yes I know Aristotle, more than 2.5 thousand years ago! 😒

Yet I have just given thought to our sense of balance and looking further others have given mention to our sense of pain and internal pressure as opposed to external pressure. Then there is the sense of cold and heat. And senses such as kinesthesia or body movements.

Now it's been argued that these are a combination of other senses. Yet you can't make that argument for sense of balance.

Hearing and balancing are not related. Deaf people from birth often have a good sense of balance because it's separate.

So shouldn't that be a different sense? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Reference material links:

https://nautil.us/we-should-count-balance-as-one-of-the-senses-236480/

https://med.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anatomy_and_Physiology/Human_Anatomy_(Lange_et_al.)/13%3A_Somatic_Senses_Integration_and_Motor_Responses/13.02%3A_SensoryModalitiesandGeneralSenses

SW-User

There are. If you were going to write them all down, you would have a number much greater than five.

I prefer to say there is only one sense, or perhaps two. We can sense what is happening to us, and what is happening around us. All the senses are born from our cells, and like computers, they will process and respond to information. They live in the same house and are related to one another.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@SW-User they just now proved it here! Yet no where on this world was any covid vaccine approved for pregnant women in 2020! There simply wasn't any proof then that it wouldn't effect DNA of the babies!

SW-User

@DeWayfarer With mRNA being what it is, did they need any proof? The questions were: will the baby become infected with the virus from the vaccine? How will the pregnant woman respond?

Some places offered the vaccine to pregnant health workers in late 2020. For other pregnant women, it was early to mid 2021.