Comment on Atmospheric Slapping Tournament

• zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  None, but I’d argue you don’t need a brain for the sensory organs doing sensing to count as senses.

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  • silasmariner@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d disagree with that argument and draw an analogy with the short reactive pathways triggered by e.g. that thing where you tap a knee with a hammer and it jerks; I don’t think the reaction loop there counts as a sense, and only when you add in the CNS and perception of it does it even connect to one. But it’s hardly a cut’n’dried argument and I’m sure there’s a lot left to plausibly disagree on here

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