We have five senses . . . not
Sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch are the big ones. But we have many other ways of sensing the world and our place in it:
- Proprioception is a sense of how our bodies are positioned.
- Nociception is a sense of pain
- Sense of balance—the inner ear is to this sense as the eye is to vision
- Sense of body temperature
- Sense of acceleration
- Sense of the passage of time
Compared with other species, though, humans are missing out. Bats and dolphins use sonar to find prey; some birds and insects see ultraviolet light; snakes detect the heat of warmblooded prey; rats, cats, seals and other whiskered creatures use their “vibrissae” to judge spatial relations or detect movements; sharks sense electrical fields in the water; birds, turtles and even bacteria orient to the earth’s magnetic field lines.
Sense of Amusement by Peggy
March 12-18, 2018 is Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is a nationwide effort organized by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and the Society for Neuroscience to promote the public and personal benefits of brain research.
http://www.dana.org/BAW/
I’ve been old that salmon use the magnetic fields to assist them when returning to the streams of their birth when it’s their time to spawn. It works.
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Steve,
Too bad we don’t have that. Maybe we would never get lost if we did!
Peggy
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