Sorry for the confusing title, but earlier when I was sipping some coffee I felt the heat emanating off of the liquid in the cup without touching the cup.
So it made me think, why don’t we treat heat sensitivity as a distinct sense to touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing? I’d love to hear a catchier name for ‘temperature sensitivity’ for its distinct sense as well, since those other ones are less of a mouthful.
Thank you for coming to my shower thought!
So you got your taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing, and thermoception? Assuming we’re treating it differently from touch.
There are several more. My favourite is proprioception - the sense of where your limbs are. Phantom limb syndrome exists because we have proprioception.
You can try adding the vestibular system, which is the sense of balance and spatial orientation, if you want to “catch them all”.