One thing Twitter has shown us is the fact that people love questions that sound silly, but that come up with deep and interesting answers. For example, what would happen if the world suddenly turned blueberries, a question posed by a physicist. Or a debate about the color of a dress?
Scientists also face the same debate. They recently argued on Twitter to answer a seemingly trivial question: “Which are the best senses, and why?”. This debate has opened up some unexpected questions — like what really makes the senses important or not? And, are some of the senses more fundamentally important?
The answer to this question is polled. Although some may consider the winner clearly the sense of sight, the sense of touch which technically engages all the sensations of our body is the winner. But, is this conclusion correct if we look at the scientific evidence?
Losing your body
We need touch more than sight to be able to move. While this seems like a claim that needs to be tested, it has been proven by several cases.
Patients whose motor nervous system is damaged are people whose sense of touch is not functioning, they also lose the ability to perceive position and movement, an ability called (proprioception), and the ability to move limbs or so-called (kinesthesia). This may occur due to an infectious reaction due to an autoimmune disease affecting the motor nervous system, although in many cases the cause is unclear.
Although the patient's motor system is not directly affected, most sufferers are unable to perform even the simplest movements. That's because the brain needs to determine the starting position when the body wants to move, and this requires a sense of touch.
Despite this limitation, one patient, identified by the initials "IW", surprised the medical professional after being able to walk again. He does this by carefully planning which muscles to move in a detailed order before actually moving — then he looks up at his limbs for success. This strategy is highly cognitive, and very uncommon, for patients in wheelchairs.
Many food connoisseurs may think of the sense of taste as the most important sense. However, anyone who has ever tried to eat after dental anesthesia can guarantee the risks and difficulties of eating without the sense of touch — a difficulty cited by patients with the initials "GL" who have lost their motor nerves. Experience "GL" is written in one scientific paper.
Another component of the sense of touch is the vestibular system, or the system that keeps us in balance and helps keep us upright. If you have ever had car sickness, you will have a little understanding of what happens when this important system goes down. In short, your eyes will tell the brain to move, but your vestibular system says you are stilling. This causes conflict that can lead to vertigo, nausea, and loss of balance.
Although they are not taken into account by the other senses, the perception of pain and temperature is also part of the sense of touch. Born without feeling pain is rare (there were 45 cases found) and very dangerous. Some experts estimate that the existing data is less than the actual incident, because many sufferers do not live long, so they are not documented. This is because pain tells your body that something is bad with you, and you need to react quickly. Patients should check themselves many times a day, to prevent infection from unwitting wounds.
Touch is an important part of human life. Touch is the first sense to form in the fetus in the womb, and some believe that the integration of various sensations related to the body may shape our self-awareness.
Touch from other people can also reduce anxiety, influence our behavior, shape brain growth and reduce the pain response in the baby's brain. We even have a special set of nerves that differentiates "social" and "emotional" touch processes.
Sight versus touch
On the other hand, from a neuroscience perspective, it is easy to see why the sense of sight stands out from the other senses. The brain seems to focus on the sense of sight. The primary brain area for processing visual stimuli, also known as the visual cortex, uses the largest area of the senses. In part because the sense of sight is resource intensive, it is the source of many forms of misperception.
Visual shrewdness means that when there is a conflict between the two senses, the sense of sight usually changes our final perception to match visual information. In the famous rubber hand illusion. We were stroking the prosthetic hand in the
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