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Because I think of pain receptors as being grouped with tactile ones. Joel Send a noteboard - 07/01/2011 11:58:48 PM

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.

It depends on the kind of pain, of course, but one can easily feel pain without touching anything - a headache, say, that does not involve any sort of touching as far as I can see. I don't see how it's any different in that regard from hunger - after all, one could argue that acute hunger is a kind of pain, albeit one with an obvious cause and obvious solution.

That may be oversimplified or even completely incorrect though. Since internal pain is the only one I can think of that isn't experienced via our skin it's easy to lump that in with touch, also sensed primarily through the skin, but that may not be accurate. Again, I don't really object to the notion of more than five recognized senses, but it does seem to me that too many of those listed are arbitrary and unnecessary distinctions. Just because there are seven distinct colors in the visible spectrum doesn't mean there are seven senses of sight.

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Because I think of pain receptors as being grouped with tactile ones. Joel - 07/01/2011 11:58:48 PM 602 Views

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Well, remember what Voltaire said about common sense.

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<quote id="183249"><quote id="183090">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. ;)</quote>
It depends on the kind of pain, of course, but one can easily feel pain without touching anything - a headache, say, that does not involve any sort of touching as far as I can see. I don't see how it's any different in that regard from hunger - after all, one could argue that acute hunger is a kind of pain, albeit one with an obvious cause and obvious solution. </quote>
That may be oversimplified or even completely incorrect though.  Since internal pain is the only one I can think of that isn't experienced via our skin it's easy to lump that in with touch, also sensed primarily through the skin, but that may not be accurate.  Again, I don't really object to the notion of more than five recognized senses, but it does seem to me that too many of those listed are arbitrary and unnecessary distinctions.  Just because there are seven distinct colors in the visible spectrum doesn't mean there are seven senses of sight. :P
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