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Did I miss the memo? When did we get a sixth sense?
by dinkleberg 11mo ago
Did I miss the memo? When did we get a sixth sense?
- remix2000 11mo agoProprioception (balance); it was always there tho afair
- wahern 11mo agoI've never read proprioception described as a sense of balance before. AFAIU, proprioception is the sense of where your body parts are in relation to each other--arms, legs, head, eyes (and eye gaze), and much more that's difficult to enumerate or describe. I guess that's critical to maintaining balance, but not sufficient? Summarizing proprioception as balance seems wrong even if the inner ear vestibular system (which is where our "sense" of balance is regulated, AFAIU) is a component of proprioception.
- tim333 11mo agoVestibular system is probably a better term for the balance system.
- lores 11mo agoAnd in addition to proprioception, we can sense hunger, thirst, tiredness, time, temperature, balance, our own movements, pain, pressure, and maybe even itching. It's just that "we have discovered a seventeenth sense" has less glamour to it
- a3w 11mo agoWe have between 12 and 33. Counting to five or six is poetic, but not rooted in science. Phasic, tonic and phasic-tonic senses is a cool deep dive.