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Dasus@lemmy.world 5 months agoMy point exactly.
I really can’t name many, but for instance nociception is the sense of pain and proprioception is the sense of where your body is in space.
A blind and deaf man can direct his hands so that his index fingers meet. And feeling isn’t the same as pain.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense#Human_sensation
Some examples of human absolute thresholds for the nine to 21 external senses.
So there a bit of debate about how many senses we have, but it’s definitely more than six.
gmtom@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve heard the 5 senses justified in that they are the 5 “external” senses and the rest are about internal sensing like your sense of hunger. It’s still a bit of a reach but much better than the pure classical view.
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Even with the external ones, you still get at least six.
From the wiki article