Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense
The way we learn about the five senses in elementary school bugs me. It is presented as this absolute fact and has become completely culturally embedded.<p>Some may argue proprioception is provided by touch, but by the same light smell and taste are inextricably linked.<p>We can also sense heat and humidity to some extent, we have some of the mechanisms needed to sense magnetic fields, but no compelling evidence (to my understanding) exists that demonstrates that we can.<p>It&#x27;s just one of those things thats much fuzzier than we think<p>Many things that we are taught in elementary school have this property