# Humans have more than five senses. Although definitions vary, the actual number ranges from 9 to more than 20. In addition to sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, which were the senses identified by Aristotle, humans can sense balance and acceleration (equilibrioception), pain (nociception), body position (proprioception or kinesthetic sense), and temperature (thermoception). [102] Other senses sometimes identified are the sense of time, itching, pressure, hunger, thirst, need to urinate, and need to defecate.[103]
Many of those are duplicates, and most duplicates of the sense of touch, pain being the most obvious. Unless one reduces "touch" to merely the awareness of contact, pain, temperature, itching, pressure and the need to urinate and defecate are all covered under "touch". Even if that's not the case, I'm not sure why there's a need to distinguish between "pressure" and "the need to defecate" AND "the need to urinate". I don't know about you, but usually the way I know I need to go to the bathroom is due to pressure.
That's not to say I dispute the position that there are more than five recognizable senses (time, hunger, thirst and balance seem good candidates, and acceleration as well as body position seem a function of the last), but most of those seem less true senses than examples of some peoples need to be contrary and pedantic (and, no, I see no irony in that statement; frankly, I'm surprised no one has yet raised this objection).
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List of common misconceptions
05/01/2011 04:33:16 PM
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I wouldn't be able to sleep a wink with a fan running all night anyway
06/01/2011 09:46:04 AM
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How could belgian highways be visible from space??
06/01/2011 12:22:58 PM
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fans make great white noise generators
06/01/2011 04:43:25 PM
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Agreed.
07/01/2011 12:14:43 AM
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good old hurricane Alicia
07/01/2011 04:51:08 AM
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Sounds like you enjoyed it more than I did.
07/01/2011 07:06:06 PM
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I was 17 and had just found out how wondefully different they were
07/01/2011 07:12:34 PM
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When I lived in Thailand, I slept with a fan blowing directly into my face
06/01/2011 04:47:39 PM
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Not for long anymore, they're gonna turn the lights off I understand. *NM*
06/01/2011 07:47:49 PM
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I cry, "foul!" on the senses one.
07/01/2011 12:12:16 AM
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That seems reasonable.
07/01/2011 06:23:54 AM
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If we limit touch to pressure, yeah, pain and temp have to be separated.
07/01/2011 07:04:05 PM
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Ha! I think it's very important for men to be able to differentiate between the need to pee and poop
07/01/2011 11:07:03 PM
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I'm not sure how you can equate the feeling of pain with touch.
07/01/2011 11:40:36 PM
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Because I think of pain receptors as being grouped with tactile ones.
07/01/2011 11:58:48 PM
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Agreed. For the rest, I knew all the ones that had ever crossed my mind. They arent common at all
07/01/2011 11:52:48 PM
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