if we cant sense them, how do we know there arent 20 other senses?

Question

LIke for example, say you were never born with a nose and you went thru life without it. Would you even know that you were missing out on " scent"?

Answer 1

There are senses which some animals have but humans do not. Some can sense magnetic fields and some can sense electric fields. Some animals have senses with some similarity to ours but with such differences that we really can't imagine how it would "feel".

We can sense heat but it is a whole different thing from being able to hunt by body heat. Until the invention of infra-red glasses, we could not imagine how a pit viper could do that. Even now we don't really know how it "looks" to the snake.

Bees can sense the polarization of light. The naked human eye cannot. How do we know what looks different about the light?

Many insects can sense a mate from enormous distances. I hesitate to say that that is just a keen sense of smell. It may operate by the same chemical reactions but I think it must be totally different in the perception.

I really wouldn't be surprised if we discover more senses that we don't have or even ones we do. Keep in mind that most people are fairly unaware of their vestibular and proprioceptive senses.

Answer 2

And this is why we're here as human beings ... with our higher consciousness, we have the ability to evolve, to figure out that we only use a fraction of our brain, that it is very likely we have yet to tap into abilities that may be dormant only because we haven't evolved to the point of sensing them in one another.

So I say, we do have 20 other senses, but until someone was born with such an amazing gift (or, since people tend to fear what they do not understand -- amazing abnormality) of having abilities that the masses do not have, we will yet know what they are.

Also, someone like that, since they would be a "mutant" or "alien" among us, would they really present themselves to the public eye, only to be contained by "officials" to "investigate" the anomaly?
I think not.

I guess we will have to wait on evolution to find out what else is in store for the human race.

Answer 3

may be till technology was not born we never knew that earth is round or earth has magnetic field.
similarly if we had no senses we had no effects n later with technology wasting we would have bought gadgets to sense such new things n those who could not afford would be living like this only with no effects

Answer 4

Now that is something to think about! Who knows what other senses there are to experience, that will never even know about.

Answer 5

Be sensible, use common sense, If you cannot sense it, it is not a sense!!!! this is my 2 cents.

Answer 6

You would obviously know you couldn't smell, but you couldn't know what you were missing.

Answer 7

for all thers we have common sense.

Answer 8

Becuase people would tell you.