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your brain's bouncer, deciding which slice of reality gets past the velvet rope
means any of the faculties (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) by which the body perceives the world, or more broadly the capacity to perceive, understand, or judge something.
from From Latin 'sensus,' meaning a faculty of perceiving or feeling, from the verb 'sentire,' to feel or perceive. It arrived in English through Old French 'sens' around the 14th century, and 'sentire' is the same root that quietly feeds 'sentiment,' 'sentinel,' 'consent,' and 'resent' — a whole family of words built on the act of feeling something.
- count
- humans have far more than five, maybe over twenty
- balance
- your inner ear keeps you upright without asking
- proprioception
- you sense your own limbs eyes closed
- hidden delay
- the brain edits and time-stamps to feel instant
- synesthesia
- some people taste words or hear colors
synesthesia — neurological condition where stimulation of one sense triggers another, affecting 4% of the population
umami taste receptor — taste sense for glutamates discovered in 1908, the fifth basic taste alongside sweet, salty, sour, bitter
echolocation in bats — sense system using reflected sound waves, evolved in bats and dolphins to navigate and hunt