[Biology] Should there be more than five senses?
We all know the common ones of course:
[center] Sight,
Sound,
Touch,
Taste and arguably
Smell.
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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? 🤷🏻♂️
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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
[center] Sight,
Sound,
Touch,
Taste and arguably
Smell.
[/center]
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? 🤷🏻♂️
[sep][sep][sep][sep]
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
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