dogjones
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This is really interesting. Seems we should add another sense to the list that started out with 5.
This is really interesting. Seems we should add another sense to the list that started out with 5.
I wonder also if it could be relevant to this thread:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86074
Well, yes...but that's rather missing the point.Just all a part of "touch".
I wonder also if it could be relevant to this thread:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86074
Those are very well positioned and balanced contributions.My favorite after the kninesthetic sense is the vestibular sense.
Digging at your skin, feeling crawly things no one can see, maybe. But the claim that people's skin is exuding artificial fibers, definitely not.I wonder also if it could be relevant to this thread:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86074
People who think they feel a breeze when there is none need to have abnormalities of their standard nerve endings and brain evaluated before one needs to start speculating on these nerves contributing. It isn't that far of a stretch to hypothesize the 'cool breeze' feelers are experiencing something akin to the opposite of a hot flash.I was thinking more in terms of it being relevant to this thread:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161325 (the cool breeze)
Pretty neat discovery, wherever it leads.
People who think they feel a breeze when there is none need to have abnormalities of their standard nerve endings and brain evaluated before one needs to start speculating on these nerves contributing. It isn't that far of a stretch to hypothesize the 'cool breeze' feelers are experiencing something akin to the opposite of a hot flash.
[total speculation]My instinct on this is that the system talked about here ordinarily plays no role in conscious perceptions of touch. However they have taken over a part of that role when normal touch sense is absent. Hasn't it been found that in some blind people, parts of the visual cortex are taken over by functions to do with hearing for example. Could this be something along those lines?[/total speculation]
That sounds like quite a sophisticated system to just grow at need. I'd think more in terms of a Mark I system and a later Mark II.