according to science, how many senses does the human have?
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Five senses:\n\nHearing \nSight \nSmell\nTaste \nTouch
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You wouldn't have to.Their senses are better then are's that can see.They probably explain better then us that can see. They don't take all of the senses forgranted.
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Simple: Our skin has sensory nerves =)
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Humans are symmetrical organisms. Cranial nerves are paired to provide innervation for the left and right.
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Aristotle, compiled the first list.\n\nHear,Taste,Touch,Sight,Smell
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Impaired senses can put us in danger in many ways. I'll give you some examples.\n\nA blind person cannot see danger approaching. If a car spins out of control people who see can try to get out of its way, while a blind person would not know whether its safer to stay put or jump out of the way (and then, in which direction, how far or whether there is something in the way).\n\nA deaf person cannot hear danger approaching or warning shouted at them. If a deaf person is walking by a house and something falls down from the roof they neither hear a noise nor the warning shouts of the person behind them.\n\nSomeone who can't smell anything would not notice dangers like gas leaks or other dangers we generally detect with our nose. If there was an unnoticed gas leak and they got the idea to light a candle, you know what would happen.\n\nSomeone who doesn't have the sense of touch is probably in the most danger of all sense impaired, because they don't feel when they get injured and don't react quickly enough. If they touch something burning hot for example, they don't feel it and don't react fast enough and can end up with life-threatening injuries, while someone who has the sense of touch would feel the heat and avoid touch, or at least immediately take their hand off the hot item when they felt the heat and then started cooling the burnt body part right away.\n\nSomeone who can't taste anything is probably in the least danger of them all, but may be in some danger anyway, such as not noticing that something is unedible, spoiled or soaked in a dangerous liquid.\n\nThe more senses that are impaired, the more the danger of course.\n\nAs for modern noise pollution, I personally know the results of that. I have recently become hearing impaired as a result of noise pollution, with trains contributing the most in my case.
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5.\n\nIt is pseudoscience.\n\n6 might also make sense.
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Are you familiar with synethesia? An amusing confusion of the senses, so to speak.\n   (Orange. And wouldn't you like to know!)
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Depends on what type of science you are limited too.  Studying the sensory systems, sensory integration, types of sensory input that people are not aware of or how it is processed.  The brain has so many interesting areas to study the ideas are endless.  For example, hit the internet and type in words like: limbic system, triune brain, proprioception, dyspraxia, PET scans, cranial nerves (especially looking at the interaction between movement and sound), bilateral integration just some beginning thoughts.
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A sixth sense refers to another means of sensing something by way of something other than the five known senses. Many scientists believe that a sixth sense may be the ability to sense changes in the electromagnetic field that surrounds the earth and all of us. This theory is especially evident in animals, ever have a dog or cat that started going crazy about 30min-1hr before a storm hits? This is because they can sense the changes in the electromagnetic field (due to barometric pressure changes)  around them in their brain. They don't know what is going to happen, but they know something is different (ex- before the tsunami of 2004 hit land, many animals were seen running for higher ground.) It is entirely possible that humans have this same ability and don't even know it when it happens.
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The tongue has receptors in it, that distinguish different molecules, which the brain interprets and records, and uses for reference later on. In conjunction with the tongue, the nose differentiates smells that coincide with tastes, and are also recorded somewhere in the brain. "Taste" is actually smell and taste, as interpreted and learned by our brain! :)
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Yes, we are. That is what the senses are. There are no real things out there, there are just clouds of possibilities. Quantum physicists are finding out the universe is much more complicated and unbelievable than once thought. Our perceptions actually modify reality.. that means there could be a universe out there for every potential choice we make in our lives... it's a mind boggling concept, but people are realizing theres more to this world than meets the eye, so to speak.
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OK, I like this question. :-) Bear with me, what I'm about to share has a point to it all ... You walk through an element all the time. The element I speak of is air. Its so fine in its molecular construction that you don't even realize its there. You can walk through water, but with greater difficulty, beause of its density. You can't walk through a brick wall, because its molecular make-up is to dense. Now, a dog perks up its ears. It hears a sound. But you can't hear that same sound. Owls can see well in the dark, but you can't. A deer sniffs the air because it smells the metal rifle the hunter carries, but you can't smell that. There are colours that you can't detect, because of the way your eye is constructed, but that's not to say that the colour isn't there. Now, going from here ... WHAT IF ... Something existed that was of a colour you couldn't see, made sounds that you couldn't hear, gave off a scent that you couldn't smell, and was constructed of a physical substance that you couldn't feel? (Remember, 100 years ago there were only 40+ substances on the Table of Elements, NOW there's well over 100. How many more might there be?) Yes, dragons exist. They just fall into the above catagory. They have intelect similar to humans, and are able to manifest in a way that allows us to know they're there. Which is why they show up historically all around the world and throughtout time. But, given their physical "construction" no paleontological evedince will ever be found to substantiate this. This is my opinion, and its based on experience. ~ Peace & Blessings ~
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hi, \ngo to this link.. its all about 6th sense http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20000701-000034.html
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We use 100% of our brain-or at least 100% of our brain sense signals and uses oxygen and glucose.  Any neuron which does not connect with another and depolarize occasionally will probably die.  I have no idea where this myth came from, unless it was from studies of learning and memory.  We can learn a great deal more than most of us do-any average person could learn multiple languages, become expert in a number of fields, etc, but we don't.  This doesnt mean we dont use our brains-learning is more likely the generation of new pathways, connections, etc.  So it may be that we only learn 10% of what we could (put this way, it would be closer to 1%).  The majority of the brain is set aside for motor and sensory system integration- It takes an enormous amount of brain power to just perform our normal movements and to interpret and filter all the huge amount of sensory information we get every second-*That* is the primary action of the cortex.
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The range of frequencies that humans can hear is approximately between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz.
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Somatic senses are a series of senses put into groups such as touch, temperature, pain, and kinesthesia.