In everyday life, as well as in literature, it is accepted that a person has five senses. This follows from the phrase - "caught with some kind of sixth sense." Or from other, but similar in content phrases. The conclusion is clear - a person has five senses. And no more. By sixth sense we mean intuition.

The astronauts object: the sense of balance is an equivalent, equal feeling, we just do not notice its “work”. And intuition then becomes the seventh sense.
The question is: is this a complete list? Or, as always, did it ever occur to anyone to name ALL the feelings of a person in one list?

We proceed from the assumption that, according to Darwin, man belongs to the animal species, is simply at the highest stage of development. But with a person there is something that official science rejects. And this “something” visibly exerts its influence on the behavioral qualities of a person. And this “something” stands above the person, above the person. This “something” is the human soul.

TRYING CLASS I F I C I R O V A T

HUMAN FEELINGS, they are animal
(i.e. - inherent in the animal world).

FEELINGS of perception of the surrounding world,
determined ANATOMICALLY.
1. Vision.
2. Hearing.
3. Smell.
4. Touch.
5. Taste.
6. Balance.
7. ……….?

FEELINGS of self-perception, feelings of manifestation of one’s inner state,
conditioned PHYSIOLOGICALLY.
(Due to temporary hormonal changes or local chemical reactions).
1. Discomfort, anxiety, fear
2. Laziness (here - dystonia disease, here - fatigue)
3. Food hunger (including thirst)
4. Sexual hunger
5. Jealousy, rivalry
6. Passion (attraction to a specific person, as a threshold of love)
7. Satisfaction and bliss after the actions taken, after receiving the result.

SPIRITUAL FEELINGS, not inherent in animals.

FEELINGS ARE SIMPLE (not everyone has them, but almost everyone is capable of them).
1. Pity, regret, conscience, shame, guilt.
2. Tact, ethical caution (behavior in society or in relation to one's neighbor).
3. Affection, dislike (respect, disrespect, sympathy, antisympathy for another person).
4. Pride in oneself (in other words, pride, that is, according to the Bible, it is a mortal sin).
5. Pride for someone (here - patriotism)
6. Self-confidence, in someone (in other words - correctness, correctness of one's own actions, words).
7. ……….?

COMPLEX FEELINGS (does not appear in everyone, and not all people are capable of complex feelings).
1. A sense of foreseeing the future (intuition, the so-called sixth sense).
2. Feeling of importance in other people (happiness).
3. Feeling of mutual importance and need in another person (respect).
4. Feeling of rejection and rejection of another person, other people (hatred).
5. Sense of musical beat (perception of music, ear for music).
6. Sense of duty (for deeds, before someone).
7. Feeling of "elbow" (interaction with a partner).

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FOLLOWING NOTES
not included in any of the lists.
(Here's the point: the number of sensual groups, lists in the future can be increased.)

1. For a harmonious family, it is necessary to have feelings of fidelity, devotion and reliability.
By the way, maybe fidelity, devotion and reliability do not belong to the category of feelings? Maybe these qualities, these epithets from the field of relationships?

2. Confidence (feeling number 6 on the list of spiritual feelings) - as a mirror image of loyalty and devotion. And confidence comes from within. Confidence is a FEELING.
And because the family is not based on fidelity (reverse action), but on confidence (feeling).

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BESIDES
(group names to be specified):

1st group of feelings: feelings due to the presence of organs designed to perceive the world around us.

2- group of feelings: feelings, due to the functional characteristics of the organs of perception.

3rd and 4th groups of feelings: feelings due to the presence of the soul.

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NOTE: two human feelings (No. 7 and No. 7) are not defined, this question still needs to be thought about.

We use them every day, every second of our lives. With their help, we get to know the world around us and only with their help we orient ourselves in it. They warn us of dangers and allow us to enjoy all the delights of life. They made us who we are after all. But most of us often do not know about their possession, at least about a considerable part of them.

Of course, it's about feelings. For the first time, the great ancient Greek thinker Aristotle asked himself the question of human feelings. He came to the conclusion that sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste constitute a complete set of human senses. Until the early 20th century, Aristotle's conclusion was generally accepted and no one doubted it. But it turned out to be wrong.

In fact, the question "How many feelings does a person have?" quite complex and not fully resolved to this day. Scientists, physiologists and physicians cannot reach a consensus in any way and decide on what can be considered a feeling, by what criteria to evaluate them, and most importantly, how to count them. As a result, specialists who adhere to the most conservative point of view count only 3 feelings, and their more radical counterparts will single out more than 30 feelings.

With a strong desire, you can count much more than 30 feelings. For example, taste can be divided into 6 separate senses (tastes of sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami (monosodium glutamate) and fat), as a specific group of receptors is responsible for each of them. With vision, the same story, in our eye there are two main groups of receptors: rods that perceive light and determine its intensity; cones that perceive color ... We note only more or less independent feelings

Microscopically magnified photoreceptors in the human eye. The cones are in purple, the rods in grey. There are several types of the first, which gives us color vision, however, in absolute terms, there are many times fewer such cells than light-sensitive rods.

human feelings

According to the most common point of view, each person has 9 senses at his disposal:

• Vision
• Smell
• Touch
• Thermoception - the feeling of warmth and its absence. Organ: skin.
• Equibrioception - a sense of balance, direction of movement and acceleration. Organ: vestibular apparatus. This is part of the inner ear, which contains special cavities filled with fluid. Such an analogue of the building bubble level, equipped with many receptors.
• Nocioception is the feeling of pain. Organs: skin, joints and almost all internal organs.
• Proprioception - awareness of the body, the sensation of its individual parts. Even with your eyes closed, feeling neither cold, nor heat, nor pain, you still know what position your arm or leg is in, after all.

conservative approach

Conservatives distinguish only 3 main senses, basing their approach on the nature of the processes inside the corresponding sense organs:

• chemical (smell and taste)
• mechanical (hearing and touch)
• light (vision)

The new four (feeling of warmth, pain...) is not included here, since these feelings are considered to be constituent parts or, if you like, subtypes of the main three. So nocioception, equibrioception and thermoception, the adherents of this approach refer to the mechanical group and, in particular, to touch, explaining their direct connection with the skin. Equibrioception, according to the principle of its action, also belongs to the mechanical group. Some other feelings, the existence of which is not denied by conservatives, are attributed to the chemical group.

Who is bigger?

And so, we have 9 senses. But is it really a complete set? What about feelings of hunger, thirst, or more delicate urges? These feelings are more than real - you can't argue with their urges, but can they be considered as independent? The sensations of a full bladder and rectum are attributed by many physiologists to internal (interoceptive) touch, but with hunger and thirst everything is much more complicated, their classification is still in question.

Even more interesting is the situation with our internal clock. Of course, they are not so accurate and sometimes let us down a little, but there is no doubt about their existence. The sense of time is unique. It, unlike others, does not have its own receptors and is not connected with the sense organs. Nevertheless, American neurophysiologists believe that they have found a complex system that regulates the perception of time, which affects several parts of the brain at once and consists of several centers (nuclei).

Among other things, there is a rather wide list of so-called unconscious feelings. Each of them has its own system of receptors at its disposal, and the body acts in a certain way when they are activated, but this happens without the participation of consciousness. This includes the pulmonary stretch system, which regulates the respiratory rate; "sensor" of the level of carbon dioxide in the blood; chemoreceptors of the pH level in the cerebrospinal fluid; and etc.

There is still extrasensory perception, which is perceived skeptically by most people and science. However, several experiments with mixed results have been officially documented. In any case, only a few have a sixth sense.

Candies in a box, you can call man's sixth sense.

Thanks to this sense, we can determine how many elements of the same kind are in a place at a given time.

It is known that there are five basic senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste and each of them has its own topographic map in the brain, that is, a map that shows where the neurons that form them are located. Now scientists have found that such a map exists for the perception of quantity.

Sense of quantity different from symbolic numbers. The latter we use to represent quantities or other quantities. When we perceive quantity, we visually process the characteristics of the image.

To better understand what controls our sense of quantity, scientists conducted a study on eight participants. They asked them to look at cards with different numbers of dots. During this experiment, the researchers analyzed the response of neurons using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

As it turned out, there is an anatomical the "quantity sense" center, which is located in the back of the parietal cortex.

Scientists say that this part of the brain, which is responsible for the perception of quantity, works like a sixth sense.

"When we see a large number of elements, we don't need to count them. We immediately know how many there are,” explained study author Ben Harvey of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

human feelings

We know the basic five human senses. However, some scientists believe that we have them, at least nine, and some claim that there are more than 21 of them.

By feeling in this case is meant a system of a group of sensory cells that respond to certain physical phenomena and correspond to a certain area of ​​the brain.

Here are the basic and other lesser known human senses:

Five human senses

Vision- in fact, it can be divided into two senses, depending on the type of receptors: color vision (cones), and brightness (rods).

Taste- some believe that taste can be divided into five senses, depending on the taste buds (sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami). Umami determines the taste of the amino acid glutamate, which is present in meat and is used as a flavoring agent.

Touch also considered a separate feeling from pressure, temperature, pain and even itching.

Hearing- the ability to perceive the vibrations of the environment, such as air and water, which are in contact with the eardrums.

Smell- the ability to detect odor.

Other human senses

Thermoception- the ability to feel hot and cold.

proprioception is a sense by which we determine where our body parts are located in relation to other parts of the body. This feeling is tested by the police when they want to know how sober a driver is by conducting a test "close your eyes and touch your nose with your hand." We also use proprioception when we want to scratch our heel without even looking at where it is.

Feeling of tension Tension receptors are located in the muscles and allow the brain to monitor muscle tension.

Nociception- the feeling of pain has a unique sensory system, and is not an overload of other senses.

Sense of balance helps us maintain balance and sense body movements as we accelerate and change direction. With the loss of this feeling, a person ceases to distinguish up from down, and moves with difficulty without outside help.

Thirst- allows our body to monitor the replenishment of fluid loss.

Hunger This system tells us when we need to eat.

magnetoception is the ability to detect magnetic fields in order to know the direction of movement. This sense is well developed in birds and insignificantly in humans.

sense of time- there is a lot of controversy about what helps a person to determine time. However, studies have shown that we have a very precise sense of time, especially in our youth.

Humans have five basic senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. The interconnected sense organs send information to the brain to help us understand and. People also have other senses in addition to the main five. Here's how they work.

People have many senses. But traditionally the five human senses are recognized as sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. There is also the ability to detect stimuli other than those regulated by these most widely recognized senses, and these sensory modalities include temperature (thermal detection), kinesthetic sense (proprioception), pain (nociception), balance, vibration (mechanoception), and various internal stimuli (e.g. , different chemoreceptors for determining the concentration of salt and carbon dioxide in the blood, hunger and thirst).

Having made these remarks, let's look at the basic five human senses:

The sense of touch is considered the first sense that humans develop, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia. The sense of touch consists of several different sensations transmitted to the brain through specialized neurons in the skin. Pressure, temperature, light touch, vibration, pain and other sensations are part of the sense of touch and are all attributed to various receptors on the skin.

Touch is not just a sense used to interact with the world; it also seems to be very important for a person's well-being. For example, touch as compassion of one person to another.

This is the sense by which we distinguish the various qualities of bodies: such as warmly and cold, hardness and softness, roughness and smoothness.

Seeing or perceiving with the eyes is a complex process. First, light is reflected from the object to the eye. The transparent outer layer of the eye, called the cornea, bends light as it passes through the pupil. The pupil (which is the colored part of the eye) acts like a camera shutter, shrinking to let in less light or opening wider to let in more light.

The cornea focuses most of the light, and then the light passes through the lens, which continues to focus the light.

The lens of the eye then bends the light and focuses it on the retina, which is full of nerve cells. These cells are shaped like rods and cones and are named after their shapes. The cones translate light into colors, central vision and detail. The wands also give people vision when there is limited light, such as at night. The information translated from the light is sent as electrical impulses to the brain via the optic nerve.

Hearing works through the complex labyrinth that is the human ear. Sound is directed through the outer ear and fed into the external auditory canal. The sound waves then reach the eardrum. It is a thin sheet of connective tissue that vibrates when sound waves reach it.

Vibrations travel to the middle ear. The auditory ossicles vibrate there—three tiny bones called the malleus (hammer), incus (anvil), and stapes (stirrup).

People maintain their sense of balance because the eustachian tube, or pharyngo-matian tube, in the middle ear equalizes air pressure with atmospheric pressure. The vestibular complex in the inner ear is also important for balance because it contains receptors that regulate the sense of balance. The inner ear is connected to the vestibulocochlear nerve, which transmits sound and balance information to the brain.

The sense of smell, by which we distinguish odors, different kinds of which convey different impressions to the mind. The organs of animal and vegetable origin, as well as most other bodies, when exposed to air, constantly send out odors, as well as a state of life and growth, as in a state of fermentation and putrefaction. These effluvia, drawn into the nostrils along with the air, are the means by which all bodies exude.

According to researchers, humans can smell more than 1 trillion scents. They do this with the olfactory fissure, which is located at the top of the nasal cavity, next to the olfactory bulb and fossa. The nerve endings in the olfactory fissure transmit odors to the brain.

In fact, a poor sense of smell in humans may be a symptom of a medical condition or aging. For example, a distorted or reduced ability to smell is a symptom of schizophrenia and depression. Old age can also reduce this ability. According to data published in 2006 by the National Institutes of Health, more than 75 percent of people over the age of 80 may have severe olfactory disorders.

Taste is usually classified into the perception of four different tastes: salty, sweet, sour, and bitter. There may be many other flavors that have not yet been discovered. In addition, spicy, the taste is not.

The sense of taste helps people to check the food they eat. A bitter or sour taste indicates that the plant may be poisonous or rotten. Something salty or sweet, however, often means the food is rich in nutrients.

Taste is felt in the taste buds. Adults have between 2,000 and 4,000 taste buds. Most of them are on the tongue, but they also extend the back of the throat, epiglottis, nasal cavity, and esophagus.

It is a myth that the tongue has specific zones for each flavor. The five tastes can be felt in all parts of the tongue, although the sides are more sensitive than the middle. About half of the sensory cells in taste buds respond to several of the five basic tastes.

Cells differ in the level of sensitivity. Each has a specific palette of tastes with a fixed ranking, so some cells may be more sensitive to sweet, followed by bitter, sour, and salty. A complete picture of taste is produced only after all information from different parts of the tongue is combined.

In this painting by Pietro Paolini, each individual represents one of the five human senses.

sixth sense of man

In addition to the traditional big five, there is a sixth human sense, the sense of space, which is about how the brain understands where your body is in space. This sense is called proprioception.

Proprioception involves the sense of movement and position of our limbs and muscles. For example, proprioception allows a person to touch the tip of their nose with their finger even when their eyes are closed. This allows a person to climb the steps without looking at each one. People with poor proprioception can be clumsy.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that people who have particularly poor proprioception, like feeling when someone is pressing on your skin (may have a mutated gene that is passed down from generation to generation) may not work, so their neurons cannot detect touch or limb movements.

People's Feelings: List

Here is a list of other human senses regarding the main five senses:

• Pressure
• Temperature
• Thirst
• Hunger
• Direction
• Time
• muscle tension
• Proprioception (the ability to recognize your body in detail, relative to other body parts)
• Sense of balance (the ability to balance and feel the movement of the body in terms of acceleration and change of direction)
• Stretch receptors (They are found in places like the lungs, bladder, stomach, blood vessels, and gastrointestinal tract.)
• Chemoreceptors (This is the medulla oblongata trigger in the brain that is involved in detecting blood. It is also involved in reflex vomiting.)

Subtle human feelings

There are more subtle human feelings that most people never perceive. For example, there are neuron sensors that sense movement to control balance and head tilt. Specific kinesthetic receptors exist to detect stretch in muscles and tendons, helping people keep track of their limbs. Other receptors detect oxygen levels in certain blood flow arteries.

Sometimes people don't even perceive feelings in the same way. For example, people with synesthesia may see sounds as colors or associate certain sights with smells.

Everyone has heard about the sixth sense at least once in their life. This is a collective term. Or, to be more precise, a colloquial definition. This is the name of any and even an animal that is not included in the main five. But this is too short an explanation of the concept. The topic is interesting and there is a lot of interesting information about it. Well, it's worth taking a look at it.

scientific evidence

It is worth referring to official information before moving on to such a term as the sixth sense. It is important. And we will talk about the main ones. They are a specialized peripheral anatomical and physiological system, which, due to receptors, ensures the receipt and primary processing of information from the outside world.

Everyone knows that there are five human senses. Or rather, organs. They are divided into remote (smell, hearing, vision) and direct (touch and taste). The first of these can perceive irritation at a distance. We can see what is hundreds of meters away from us, smell the smell coming from the kitchen, hear the scream from the street. But only with direct contact is a person able to recognize the taste of food and experience the tactile sensation of touch.

It is important to know that 90% of all information we receive through vision. The proverb “It is better to see once than hear a hundred times” becomes clear. But even by ear, a person perceives about 9% of information. And only 1% - with the help of other organs. But still, the five senses of a person are irreplaceable. If at least one is missing, then life will no longer seem complete.

"Third Eye"

This is what the sixth sense is also called. This is a very powerful comparison. It allows you to roughly represent the essence of this definition.

The sixth sense is a unique ability that allows you to feel the invisible world or another dimension. You can add to this list more intuition, clairvoyance, foreboding. A person with a developed sixth sense can sometimes catch the cause and effect of a certain event without realizing it. Without the use of experience, memory, reasoning and logic. A person simply receives information - it seems to appear in his head. Many take it skeptically. After all, how can information be true that is not based on logic?

But skepticism is redundant. And sometimes it is better to listen to what the sixth sense says. Human intuition rarely fails. Especially in any important or dangerous situations. How many times has this happened: a person felt restless in his soul, and as if something prompted - you should not do this, it is better to prevent what is planned or do otherwise. But he ignores the message, after which he regrets with thoughts “I felt it!”.

Is it possible to develop a sixth sense?

The question is interesting. And up-to-date. Many people, having learned what the sixth sense of a person is, are eager to acquire such a unique ability. It is believed that for some it exists from birth. Even if the person did not engage in spiritual practice. It is said that this is because such people have reached a certain level in a past life.

You can develop a sixth sense. To do this, you need to become less rationalist, expand your own worldview, become open to new knowledge and more attentive. Maybe dreams are visions? Or thoughts that come to mind in the process of finding a solution to a problem, but seem completely out of place? A person with intuition, a sixth sense - he is the same as the others. Only he does not set limits and boundaries for himself in thinking. And so it grows spiritually.

Our brain generates up to 60 thousand (!) thoughts every day. And most of them (about 95%) are outdated information. It could have been stored in the brain yesterday. Or even a couple of years ago. Everyone at least once noticed how a long-forgotten memory suddenly appeared in his head. Or a strange thought - for no reason at all. All this is called mental garbage. To get rid of it, you need to develop intuition, with the help of which it will be possible to clear the mind. Mental garbage drowns out inner flair. By getting rid of it, you can more clearly hear the call of the sixth sense.

Training Methods

One of the most famous researchers of intuition is José Silva. He also authored the program for the development of the sixth sense, which was based on the four rhythms of the human brain. These are alpha, beta, theta, and delta. The technique is aimed at developing not paranormal abilities, but the ability to pay attention to the signals that consciousness already sends to a person. You can learn to control your memory, get out of difficult situations easily, achieve success faster.

The scientist assures that success can be achieved if you meditate daily. Relaxation allows you to clear your mind, get rid of stress and prepare your mind to receive the maximum amount of information. During meditation with closed eyes, one should try to visualize the place in which a person feels free. You need to remember all the details - the smell reigning around, the weather, the landscape reigning around.

And before you go to bed, you need to think about unresolved issues and problems, as well as ways to solve them. This will activate your imagination. And in the process of sleep, a decision can come to a person from the subconscious.

On rational intuition

The subconscious is an interesting thing. Intuition, also called the sixth sense, is the ability to understand what is happening instantly, without conscious control.

It is said that the experienced eye sees more than the novice eye. A person who has been engaged in a certain activity for years can judge many things without any logic. It's just based on experience. And often intuitively, unconsciously. This has happened to every person at least once in their life. When a journalist types text in a document, he automatically places punctuation marks, builds his material according to a certain structure. And if you ask him why in this sentence he put a comma before this word, he will think. And not the fact that he will answer. He has been doing his job for so long that he simply does not need to explain the rule. So it is necessary - that's all. And this statement is based on experience.

Or take, for example, experienced aircraft designers. Having seen the aircraft, they can immediately, without calculations, determine its approximate flight characteristics and prospects. The choreographer, selecting students into a group, will immediately understand who has a dance future and who does not. There are many examples, but the essence is the same.

What do the scientists say?

For many people, the sixth sense of a person is of great interest. The evidence for its existence is highly controversial. Again, there is too much skepticism about this topic. But a few years ago, the news thundered - scientists have found a sixth sense gene in people! And this, as American experts assured, is proprioception. With this term, they dubbed the ability of a person to feel the position of body parts relative to each other in space. Its loss can adversely affect speech, coordination, even the ability to walk.

About the opening

This statement was made by a pediatric neurologist named Karsten Benneman. The specialist is on the staff of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, which is located in the United States. He observed two patients with similar symptoms. One was 9 and the other 19. Both suffered from scoliosis, had difficulty walking, and had insensitive skin. And the limbs were strangely bent.

The scientist ran some tests. It was possible to find out that the girls walk normally and touch their noses only with their eyes open. In the absence of visual control, none of the above could be done. They didn't even feel touched. Only pain and fever.

So Karsten figured out they don't have a sixth sense. They are not aware of their limbs in space. This can be partially compensated by vision. To be more precise, these girls would not be able to instinctively shift gears while driving a car, type text without looking at the keyboard, play a musical instrument. And all because of a rare and severe mutation of the PIEZO2 gene, which is associated with tactile sensations.