In your uttermost conclusion are there more than the five senses (sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing, etc)? What constitutes a sense truely? Is intuition a sense? Me personally, I get intuition I can feel mentally fairly enough usually from what I know is the true Higher Power. I count it as a sixth sense in conclusion. Anyone else get an intuition on anything at all? Think back now. And were you aware of what it came from? Did you notice it felt stronger in certain instances? Would you happen to remember what those instances were? Breif me on them as if you are a 5 star general if you can.
I def. believe there can be a sixth sense, or beyond. The first five are more physical, but we definitely have a mental/psyche or even spiritual sense that many can tap into. Sometimes I can sense when someone is about the enter a room, the house, etc. It's not that I can hear them, or feel them coming physically..I just "feel" it. It's interesting.
To be limited to only 5 senses is like being told you can't go over 50 mph on the speedometer. You're really missing the best part. x
I would say the key word is feel. I believe there are only 5. If feel something and connect it to a thought its just a highly developed way of putting together your feeling and hearing. Some people's senses, awareness, and ability put together information is amazing. Our senses in essence are spiritual but most of our's are limited while we play this game. Exceptions to every rule. Both of you are talking about feeling something - SignRelated about the touch and word of God, and usfcat about a heightened sense of touch to the point of extending out the building she is. Also very possibly heightened sense of hearing but only at the barely noticable almost unconscious level. ^ Opinion Arguements?
there are about ten senses. equilibrium. pressure. heat/cold. hunger/thirst. your relative position in space. aristotle was the one who wrote that there are five senses. he also believed that there were four elements and that flys had four legs. he was incredibly bright for his time, but was ultimately very wrong about many, many things. he was such a respected authority, however, that many of his claims went unchallanged for centuries, and continue to this day. anyways, to the origional poster: sense is usually defined as input from outside the brain. since intuition is really your brain calculating, i wouldn't call it a sense in the classical meaning.
I completely believe there are more than 5 senses as to how many they are I dont know. Actually I like to think of senses as one big thing, like machine, that combined together allow you to really perceive, but separated only show you aspects of what's there. I also think there are many different degrees to what we sense, and it doesnt really has to do anything with intensity but more like different levels. It's like some people can only see what others show you and others can see what they show and what's inside and others can see things in others, that the person only realizes after you make them aware. This is just one example. Knowing where to go in a place you've never been. Saying exactly what a person's thinking. And this are random things, I think it allows you so much more than that.
Okay, how about electroception in fish? Or the relative position of your body in space? Five senses is just an oversimplified bit of pop wisdom that has persisted through the centuries and is downright wrong. just because they told you something in school doesn't make it true (the civil war wasn't about or over slavery for instance, and africa has a history).
Relative position of body in space is the combination of sight and feeling. Same thing goes for electroception. I believe those old dudes were pretty smart. Smarter than anyone on this forum anyway (including me).
i always thought of my senses as various ways of receiving and interpreting information. it's also nice to look at it as different ways of creating the world-which is pretty much what your senses do for you. however, each sense is different, some very different. some that we aren't accustomed to we describe as extrasensory, or view as scary, hallucinatory, coming from outside of ourselves, or just not real. it's obvious that we've evolved the senses that we're accustomed to. isn't it probable we are evolving more? it seems that anything you experience counts as a sense. we could probably break each experience down into many different groups of "senses" or narrow it down to 3, 2 or even 1. the senses are our experience of existance. as we grow and perceive more, we develop more of them, though it is (as another posted earlier) all part of one process.
i suppose you want to hear about our actual experiences the most, eh? as many others do, i dream. art. true love-making. day to day emotions. true loneliness. shock. true confrontation with death. being understood. being misunderstood. giving up. being reborn. starting over one step ahead. spiraling on. i've always been good at lying. the proper excuse has always popped out when i needed it. it never comes from conscious thoughtforms. for verbal information to come out of me without any conscious thought implies the use of "subconsciousness" or, as i like to call it, "another consciousness". i have experienced taking up all of the space in a two story house. i experienced scenes in each room that i was able to verify later (after the mushrooms and dxm wore off.). synesthesia-this one is worth experiencing at least once. anyways, etc. can we not agree that our senses are much more wavy and indescribable than we would like to believe? perhaps our afterthought of dividing and categorizing different sections of this beyond beautiful event will only lead us away from a true understanding of all of this.
