Do you think we have all senses

[Kristofer]

What i mean is, I have recently watched a movie called I origins and in one part of the movie the main guy is giving worms a sense of sight, and for the first time in their life the worms could actually see.
Do you think there is a chance for us humans to be missing some sense (that no other animal has) that would totally change our life. What would it be?

[HexHammer]

What i mean is, I have recently watched a movie called I origins and in one part of the movie the main guy is giving worms a sense of sight, and for the first time in their life the worms could actually see.
Do you think there is a chance for us humans to be missing some sense (that no other animal has) that would totally change our life. What would it be?

We have pseudo senses, we don't use like "sonar" we can make sounds and actually "see" like bats where the sound reflects off objects.

Some fish has "electrical" senses, where they can measure the electrical pulses in the water to sense animals.

[Kristofer]

Yes but i meant liek senses that no other animal has, what would they be?

[Hobbes' Choice]

First thing is to realise that we sense reality in more ways than you are aware of and the mode of sensation is not necessarily the best way of experiencing it.
Conventionally we have only five senses, and this Aristotelean presumption has focused the way we think of sensory experience. sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.
But what about our sense of hunger. This is the bodily response to low blood sugar. In fact there may be as many as 20 or more senses, most of them related to somatic information.
A major sense: the amount of oxygen in the blood!!!! You'd die without this one.
The sense of balance. This is due to semicircular canals in the ears which tells us how the fluid in the canals move relative to their internal surfaces. We use this to judge movement and balance.
What about proprioperception? This is where you can tell the position of your limbs in relation to one another without having to see them. Close your eyes and touch your nose.
Sense of direction
Sense of temperature
Sight can be subdivided into light dark and three colours
Taste into 6 different types.
Three types of pain.

How about sensing when the body is about to lay down fat cells? That would be a bloody useful sense. All the better if it were a little bit painful!!!!

[Hobbes' Choice]

Yes but i meant liek senses that no other animal has, what would they be?

Seeing radioactivity?
Smelling a magnetic field?
Hearing an earthquake on another continent.

[Harbal]

We have pseudo senses, we don't use like "sonar" we can make sounds and actually "see" like bats where the sound reflects off objects.

There's nothing pseudo about them, HexHammer, I can echo locate a midge at a range of 20 feet quite comfortably.

[Harbal]

But what about our sense of hunger.

And what about our sense of fancying nipping down to the pub for a pint? And then there's our sense of humour, I bet you didn't know about that one, did you, Hobbes.

[HexHammer]

But what about our sense of hunger.

And what about our sense of fancying nipping down to the pub for a pint? And then there's our sense of humour, I bet you didn't know about that one, did you, Hobbes.

Hehe ..good 1 Harb!

[Noax]

Sense of gravity would be interesting, albeit not particularly useful in an evolutionary sense.
I think it can be done via detection of tidal forces for instance.

I love how a cat senses mice in the total dark with just the whiskers. That I would find useful.

[thedoc]

There are some senses that I don't know the name for. Once I was working on my roof, 3 stories up, and I got a strong urge to get back to the center, and when I looked I was very close to the edge, without even seeing it.

[Hobbes' Choice]

Sense of gravity would be interesting, albeit not particularly useful in an evolutionary sense.
I think it can be done via detection of tidal forces for instance.

I love how a cat senses mice in the total dark with just the whiskers. That I would find useful.

We already have that.

[Harbal]

I love how a cat senses mice in the total dark with just the whiskers. That I would find useful.

We already have that.

Do we?

[Hobbes' Choice]

I love how a cat senses mice in the total dark with just the whiskers. That I would find useful.

We already have that.

Do we?

Even a thick as a brick Yorkshireman knows what it is like to fall on his face.
Trying lifting your fucking arm you moron.

You can keep up your trolling, but I'm putting you on ignore.

[TSBU]

We already have that.

Do we?

Even a thick as a brick Yorkshireman knows what it is like to fall on his face.
Trying lifting your fucking arm you moron.

You can keep up your trolling, but I'm putting you on ignore.

me too please.

[Hobbes' Choice]

Do we?

Even a thick as a brick Yorkshireman knows what it is like to fall on his face.
Trying lifting your fucking arm you moron.

You can keep up your trolling, but I'm putting you on ignore.

me too please.

You are far too nice.