Menna
The Living Force
I have finished the Myth of Sanity and am now almost halfway through The Sociopath Next Door. I really like Martha Stouts writing style. Anyway in the book she talks about a 7th sense Consciousness and that got me thinking. I always thought we only had 5 senses. I then did some research and came up with information that states we have anywhere from 9-21 senses all depending on your definition of a sense. Aristotle said we have 5 but I believe his information to be out dated
A couple of examples: sense of balance; proprioception (knowing how to touch your nose without seeing it); temperature perception; pain echolocation; sense of time
ELECTROMAGNETIC
Sight
-detected through light receptors in your eyes.
-most people have 3 types of cone and rods. Some people have 1 or 2 types of cone (colour blind people) and some have 4 types of cone (possible new variants of human being).
-The eye also contains many computing neurons that send information to the brain about colour, brightness, and the borders present in the scene.
Emotion
-detected in solar plexus (celiac plexus), located in the upper abdomen.
-A complex network of nerves where people "feel emotions"
-Rich in ganglia and interconnected neurons, the solar plexus is the largest autonomic nerve center in the abdominal cavity
-Mostly developes during puberty.
Mind/conscious
-detected in the pineal gland (sometimes referred to as "the 3rd eye" by some spiritualists, pineal body, epiphysis cerebri and epiphysis by neuroscientist) At the center and connecting the two hemispheres of the brain.
-Produces melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) which also exhibits a circadian rhythm.
-Responsible for the homosapien's sense of self awareness.
PHYSICAL VIBRATION
Sound
-detected through tiiny hairs in your inner ear.
-there are many hairs, different sizes detecting different frequencies.
Touch
-detected through your skin. There are a range of different types of nerves detecting temperature changes, torn flesh, high, and low frequency pressure, and more!
CHEMICAL
Taste
- salty, sour, bitter, sweet, and umami. They correspond to sodium, acid, complex(many biologically active chemicals like poisons and antioxidants), sugar, and amino acid (protein). There may be more tastes that we have not identified receptors for. Eg metallic tastes?
-tastes are detected through chemical receptors on the tongue.
Smell
- although the human is not as sensitive as a dog, we still have many different chemical detectors in the nose and can detect thousands of different scent signatures.
-smell is slightly different to taste in that the nerves of the olfactory system enter directly into the main brain rather than going through central processing like the rest of our senses.
Right there thats 13 senses...
A couple of examples: sense of balance; proprioception (knowing how to touch your nose without seeing it); temperature perception; pain echolocation; sense of time
ELECTROMAGNETIC
Sight
-detected through light receptors in your eyes.
-most people have 3 types of cone and rods. Some people have 1 or 2 types of cone (colour blind people) and some have 4 types of cone (possible new variants of human being).
-The eye also contains many computing neurons that send information to the brain about colour, brightness, and the borders present in the scene.
Emotion
-detected in solar plexus (celiac plexus), located in the upper abdomen.
-A complex network of nerves where people "feel emotions"
-Rich in ganglia and interconnected neurons, the solar plexus is the largest autonomic nerve center in the abdominal cavity
-Mostly developes during puberty.
Mind/conscious
-detected in the pineal gland (sometimes referred to as "the 3rd eye" by some spiritualists, pineal body, epiphysis cerebri and epiphysis by neuroscientist) At the center and connecting the two hemispheres of the brain.
-Produces melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) which also exhibits a circadian rhythm.
-Responsible for the homosapien's sense of self awareness.
PHYSICAL VIBRATION
Sound
-detected through tiiny hairs in your inner ear.
-there are many hairs, different sizes detecting different frequencies.
Touch
-detected through your skin. There are a range of different types of nerves detecting temperature changes, torn flesh, high, and low frequency pressure, and more!
CHEMICAL
Taste
- salty, sour, bitter, sweet, and umami. They correspond to sodium, acid, complex(many biologically active chemicals like poisons and antioxidants), sugar, and amino acid (protein). There may be more tastes that we have not identified receptors for. Eg metallic tastes?
-tastes are detected through chemical receptors on the tongue.
Smell
- although the human is not as sensitive as a dog, we still have many different chemical detectors in the nose and can detect thousands of different scent signatures.
-smell is slightly different to taste in that the nerves of the olfactory system enter directly into the main brain rather than going through central processing like the rest of our senses.
Right there thats 13 senses...
