The ability to feel fear, detect temperatures or even feel the passage of time are also part of “outer intelligence.” After all, we feel with more than limited 5 factors.
When you wrote your iconic work Of animal (About the soul), Aristotle described the “outer intelligence” of humans, that is, their senses, as only 5: Vision, touch, taste, smell and hearing.
Even today we learned in school, but with the evolution of understanding of the human body we understand today that this idea is outdated – there are much more than 5 senses in humans. Why do we limit these to these? And what are the others?
It explains that we feel not only external factors, but also the internal ones – we know we have hunger, cold, fear, etc. This is called “interception“And the factors that make us have this perception are also senses. We have others that allow us to guide us in space or time: non-palpable, audible, visible perceptions, etc.
Some examples go through thermocerationthat is, our ability to detect temperatures, or by harmfulnessthe ability to feel pain. There is even propriolationwhich consists of our awareness of how our body is positioned. And the passing of time? This we find through the chronocetation (which, of course, as all the senses is also mistaken).
Some of these senses are cleared through the sensory organs, such as the ability to balance It is provided by the inner ear, for example. Others work through an organ sets. The chronocetation is possible through various organs and complex processes that our brain interprets, for example.
We are between 12 to 13 sensesSome experts believe, while others argue that we may have more than 20. And there are animals with meanings that we humans do not have.
This is the case of several animals that have a high magnetorrence (the ability to swim long distance, which the human has very little), or the electroreceptionwhich allows detecting prey in cloudy water. Even the perception of infrared, for example, is inherent in various species and not to humans – although there are already
If 12, 13 or 20 do not blind you, you can still bet on “Sixth sense”that intuition or telepathy that humans say feel and that, anatomically, is not explained.
