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!

  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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    Or how full an opaque bottle of water is when you pick it up, just by feeling how it sloshes inside the container. Our brains are doing some serious math

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      Our brains are doing some serious math

      I had a friend observe that you don’t have to consciously understand complex math to be able to predict the trajectory of a ball.