6th Sense

February 6, 2008 at 3:47 pm · Filed under Thoughts

I believe that the common notion that we have 5 sense may in-fact be wrong. This occurred to me while I was waiting for the water in the shower to reach an appreciably warm temperature. Directly above my cold waiting spot is the furnace vent. It where there I realized I could sense THREE things.

  1. The air from the vent
  2. The warm air from the shower
  3. The cold air from the vent

Now this is actually a poor example of what I’m trying to demonstrate, but I’ll give it a go. Our largest organ is skin and can sense two things. Tactile touch and temperature. Two mechanically different things are going on here. We’re attempting to enter the same physical space of an existing object and it is resisting appropriately; and, we’re sensing radiated waves of energy (infra-red and friends) as relative temperature.

Or just consider this, our eyes pick up visible light and our skin picks up thermal energy in the same manner. 6 senses indeed.

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