Senses

[Humberto]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense

There are five traditional senses defined by Aristotle: touch, sight, hearing, smell, taste.

In addition, humans have the following senses:

• vestibular sense: sense of acceleration and balance (equilibrioception);
• sense of temperature (thermoception);
• sense of pain (nociception);
• kinesthetic sense: sense of positions of parts of the body relative to one another (proprioception);
• sense of time (chronoception);
• internal senses, for example peripheral chemoreceptors in the brain which monitor carbon dioxide and oxygen levels to give a feeling of suffocation if carbon dioxide levels get too high.

 

[zophas]

So where do the term "the sixth sense" come from? Is that to do with esp etc?

 

[Humberto]

So where do the term "the sixth sense" come from? Is that to do with esp etc?

Yes (to my knowledge).