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Unexplainable

Making Sense: The sixth sense

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Why stop at five senses? Just how much of the world can we perceive? And how much is out there that’s still out of reach, hiding in the dark? This is the sixth and final episode of our six-part series, Making Sense. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All knowledge must come through the senses, all that we perceive and all of the awareness of our daily existence.

0:20.0

Light, double rainbow, oh my god, sound, listen to me, listen to me.

0:25.0

Touch, orders and tastes.

0:29.0

What are your thoughts concerning the human senses?

0:32.0

As me and wine are nourishment to the body, the senses provide nutrition to the soul.

0:39.0

All that we perceive, seeing, all of the awareness, hearing, all knowledge must come through the senses.

0:46.0

Have an incredible sense of touch.

0:48.0

All that we perceive and tasting, all of the awareness, smell it, all knowledge must come through the senses.

0:55.0

Does it make sense?

0:57.0

So how are we lawful?

0:59.0

We use so how are we lawful?

1:02.0

It's unexplainable. I'm Noam Hasenfeld here with Science Editor Brian Resnick.

1:07.0

Hi. So Brian, we've spent five episodes at this point talking about all the incredible things that we can sense

1:15.0

and how much we still don't know about how our senses work.

1:18.0

But this whole series, I keep listening to our theme song and I keep hearing this line.

1:25.0

That was originally from this 50s documentary I pulled, all knowledge must come through the senses.

1:31.0

And there's this list of smell, sight, sound, touch, taste.

1:36.0

And I don't know, it seems like maybe obvious on its face, but the more I listen to it, the more I keep wondering,

1:45.0

does all my knowledge come through these five senses?

1:48.0

Like I must know things that aren't through these five, right?

1:53.0

Yeah, yeah. So I think the concept of there being five senses and there being like a very finite number comes from Aristotle who was, you know, very old at this point.

2:05.0

You know, there is definitely a view that we have more sensations than just these five broad categories.

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