Does science believe in sixth sense? If yes, then what exactly is it??

Answer 1

Science does not 'believe'. It proves or disproves.
But the hypothesis put forth by a scientist can be based on his/her belief.
I am a scientist. A molecular biologist.
I believe in sixth sense.
I have mechanistic, proven argument(s) to support (may not conclusively prove) my belief.
Here are some of the examples based on brain.

I am deliberately taking the examples related to brain because science relies on knowledge that is understood by the brain. And six sense to me is an impulse, that is - at the time of its generation - not logically explainable to the brain.

As far as deductive knowledge is concerned, to me, brain is a poor handicapped fellow completely dependent on sensory organs.

EXAMPLE 1

When yoy touch a glass with your finger tips (with closed eyes), your brain can still say that this is a smooth surface. But when the fingers are severly injured, or may be fractured, for some time at least the brain is unable to tell that the fingers touched a glass. This is because the fingers have sent an all together different signal to the brain. The example tells you that upon touch, the fingers gain some knowledge, and based on this knowledge they send a message to brain which is only interpreted by the brain.
If this is accepted can anybody tell what was the knowledge gained by his/her fingertip when it touched an object?
We can't.
Because our brin is unaware of what out fingertips understood.
This is the limitation of our (our brains) set of knowledge.
The knowledge available with our body cant be the knowledge of our own brain.

EXAMPLE 2

You can operate a cars lock using remote device from a certain distance.
Go few steps further away from car, from where it operated last.
Point the arial of the remote unit towards your head and press the button.
The car lock will operate.
This experiment shows that our brain can selectively amplify and retransmit the electromagnetic signal that falls on it.
The function done by our with refernce to some information or knowledge is without its own knowledge and any understanding of the body.

The two examples suggest that there is a lot of disparity in the brain and body as far as the 'knowledge set' they posses, use, or process.

In addition to this processing of information for deductive knowledge, the brain also has a capacity of inductive processing (thinking).

I therefore strongly believe that this inductive thinking and sixth sense are linked.
They are also linked to the domain of 'understanding' functions of brain and body (and may be understanding each other's capabilities).

There are so many other proofs of social behaviour which explain how sixth sense exists.

For example if you make a group of few thousand people.
This group has clusters of at least 6 - 7 individuals who have a remote blood relation, but they do not know about this.
When you put this group under some crisis simulation, the related individuals come together and form a group to fight with the situation.
This is either communication between biomolecules to recognize self and non-self, or selfishness of genes for their own survival ; but in any case since it is not explainable deductively by brain we will call it a 'sixth sense' only.
There is much more to write.
But I hope I have clarified the matter with this information.

Answer 2

I've read about theories science has on the sixth sense. Anyway, it's an inheritance from our animal past and animals, uninhibited by rational thinking are much better at this sixth sense. Dogs know when their owner is coming home before they can hear his car or his steps. Alternatively, they just have such hearing ability that it covers kilometers and kilometers of space. On the other hand, sometimes dogs and cats 'know' of some information (like the owner's arrival) a day before the event happens. Of course, they also feel coming natural disasters, like earthquakes and storms - maybe their sensory system is again so precise and so finely tuned, that they just manage to perceive tiny vibrations of the earth surface or a change in humidity of the air etc. Some scientists, of whose research I read long ago, claim the same about human intuition: the premonition or foreboding is just the information received from all the senses at once and quickly processed by the brain. I do not know if it is true or not. And I do not know if science can really say anything definite on such subjects as the sixth sense or love in the nearest future. Eventually, though, I hope it will, but then it has to be really flexible and take a grain of 'belief' into its scope. Though, then it's not going to be the science as we know it now...

Answer 3

The sixth sense is widely accepted as ESP or clairvoyance.

Numerous specialists have investigated and experimented about the existence of many paranormal phenomenon - chief of them dealing with the sixth sense. Unless otherwise proven, science would not be accepting nor dismissing the idea that the sixth sense is a real deal.

Answer 4

YES. A sense of something about to happen: Deja-View or premonition. Or just plain common sense. Such as knowing history and ones own personal experiences and comparing the common, past, variables to the current or anticipated situation.

Answer 5

Science does not believe in anything... Science is incapable of 'believing' in anything. In fact the scope of science SHOULD NOT be "in believing" in anything.

Considering the limited capacity of a scientific approach, why would anybody have the attitude that science is enough to explain everything in the universe??

Answer 6

Your extremely nauseating kissing up even though, cupcake, in case you do no longer understand what a scientific theory says, you in all threat shouldn't reject it till you do. There are countless issues of your "question:" a million. human beings do no longer "have faith" in technology - they settle for it. 2. the super Bang theory has no longer something to do with the beginning place of existence. 3. the factor is that no longer something replaced into "created." each and every thing developed via fact the effect of organic approaches. 4. there is no info of any author - your thought is in basic terms a thought. technology works on info.

Answer 7

Science is process it has no belief function. That said, check out quantum physics. I would recommend reading one of the several books by Fred Alan Wolfe or check out the movie "What the &*#** do we know?" also known as "What the bleep?.

Answer 8

Considering we only use about 1/10th of our brain scientists have SPECULATED that we have other abilities like mental telepathy or PK factors but if you ask 10 scientists what they believe you will get 10 answers.

Answer 9

yes i do , i believe its a sense of humans that we don't really noe how to use yet unlike our other sense of touch,smell,hearing,sight and taste

Answer 10

We have sensory cells in our body that still haven't been explained - but they don't assist in smell, touch, taste, sight or hearing.