What would existence be like...
What would existence be like for a child born with no senses... no sight, no taste, no smell, no hearing, no touch? During Thanksgiving
Week I was thinking about all of the many people, conveniences, blessings and things we all tend to take for granted. Our five senses
would probably rank quite high on such a list. If you had to forfeit one, which would it be and which would be the last you'd like to lose?
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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby1st: Hearing
What would existence be like...
What would existence be like for a child born with no senses... no sight, no taste, no smell, no hearing, no touch? During Thanksgiving
Week I was thinking about all of the many people, conveniences, blessings and things we all tend to take for granted. Our five senses
would probably rank quite high on such ...[text shortened]... to forfeit one, which would it be and which would be the last you'd like to lose?
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Last: sight
These wre immediate thought.
Well I have been without the following senses in my lifetime:
Touch (from being very drunk)
Taste (from a bad cold)
Smell (Also caused by a cold)
Sight (Twice, both times from getting hit in the eye by flying objects)
And I can say without a doubt that it is much better to lose any other sense then sight.
Originally posted by TyrannosauruschexAs I mentioned in my previous post, the sense of touch and the sense of pain are separate senses that can be lost or missing separately. And as nice as it may sound, the loss of the sense of pain would likely be disastrous. I remember reading about a child who was born without a sense of pain, and IIRC he had already lost several fingers at the age of two. Pain is there for a reason.
I dont see why people regard touch so highly - that would be the first to go for me. Then I would be pretty much invincible, with no feeling of pain,
The post that was quoted here has been removedSense of balance/equilibrium as well as body orientation to its parts, position and to external objects is viewed as part of the sense of touch.
Somatosensation: cutaneous (tactical, pain, pleasure), kinesthesis (inner ear sense of balance) and proprioception (6th sense) per Google.
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