Re:Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense
by soulofmischief on Sunday December 15, 2019 @04:52AM
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We also have speed cells, boundary cells, place cells, grid cells... some of our senses might not be auxiliary or primary but rely on another sense which mediates them.
But your body keeps track of its speed and location in any environment regardless of if your senses are impaired (grid cells and place cells rely not only on sight but information gathered from speed and head direction cells), which is as much of a sense as proprioception. We don't even have a word for this, I think. Locoception, perhaps? Posiception? Only two Latin roots I know which fit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_cell
Re:Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense
by byteface on Sunday December 15, 2019 @06:02AM
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"We don't even have a word for this". Isn't it just spatial frequency?
Re:Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense
by soulofmischief on Sunday December 15, 2019 @06:34AM
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The innate sense of where you are in relation to yourself is proprioception.
The innate sense of where you are in relation to your environment is... spatial frequency?
That doesn't sound right.
Re:Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense
by earenndil on Saturday December 14, 2019 @06:55PM
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> The "taste" of a steak is a mix of smell and taste
And pressure--i.e. texture.
Then there's proprioception as mentioned in the article, the sense of balance/acceleration as measured in our ears, and together with smell, sound, taste and sight we are already at 9 senses.
And as you mention many of the things we actually perceive are derived from many senses. The "taste" of a steak is a mix of smell and taste, your balance is a mix of sight and your acceleration, temperature is something we can't actually fell but can derive from how much heat enters or leaves our body, "pain" is a giant category spanning nearly all senses, etc.