I think it's that any experience is a combination of the senses and that most importantly of all thought is a sense. A sense is anything that happen involuntar

I think it's that any experience is a combination of the senses and that most importantly of all thought is a sense. A sense is anything that happen involuntarily. Gathering data from the environment. Food is mostly nose/tongue senses but also very visual. The tongue also has touch. However stories also implant thoughts and is perhaps the most advanced form of making food taste good as eventually all non-thought sense BECOME thought. Stories however are limited because they create thought only in the form of whatever language is used, say English. It is also the method of gauging quality. "That was great". The highly personal experience must snap to pre-existing words. Subtlety and thus more exact and truer meaning requires combinations of different words. Say a poem. Food itself falls prey to the consumerism feedback loop that creates experiences that try to titillate the senses more and more in an absolute way rather than through subtlety. Spicier and spicier food is an example. As is more and more violent TV. There's nothing wrong with this persay. It's just that the hedonistic treadmill ratchets upwards and eventually you run out of stuff and end up so numbed to subtlety that the small but beautiful things are difficult to appreciate because you've dampened your resolution capabilities. High-food has the same problem as high-art. It takes too much discipline to appreciate and no one has the time. We're all too busy trying to one up the world.