Making sense of the senses?

AniaSM | 18:48 Sun 18th Mar 2007 | Body & Soul

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How many senses do we have? I'm told that it's far more than 5.

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Some people say that theres more than 5. I'm not sure.
Intuition/Emotion could be another?

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A 6th sense as in psychic?

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I mean things like feeling heat is a sense. Also if you close your eyes and move your arm about you can always tell where it is. Thats a sense too.

AniaSM...here are another 4...

Thermoception
Nociception
Equilibrioception
Proprioception

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense#Other_sense s

Isn't that heat thing the same as feel? (feel the heat)

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