Speaker 0:  stop saying you only have five senses. that's aristotleian nonsense that's holding you back. how we understand human hardware. modern neuroscience just confirmed you're actually running between twenty two and thirty three distinct sensory inputs, and knowing them unlocks a massive upgrade for your health and spatial awareness. so the five senses model is obsolete, and we aren't just seeing and hearing. we are processing okay. i'm gonna get a lot of this wrong. proprioception limb position, vestibular data balance, and introception internal organ statuses in real time. it's a shift from viewing the brain as a simple five channel receiver to a massive multi sensory integration engine. and this explains everything from why vr motion sickness happens to why airplane noise makes tomato soup taste better. understanding this allows us to hack your own experiences. what do you think about this, john?

Speaker 1:  i think this is cool. this makes total sense. i don't think this is sci fi. and this just speaks to how science has advanced. and so now they've recognized that many of the bodily systems previously lumped under general systems or general senses are, in fact, functionally separate sensory modalities. so for example, what we call touch is actually a complex grouping of sensory inputs. pressure, vibration, heat, cold, pain, itch, all that stuff. right? each with dedicated receptors and neural pathways. similarly, with taste and smell, they involve multiple submodalities and interactions rather than a single unified sense. so beyond the five senses, researchers identify sensory systems, and that's what you were talking about. so pro proprioception, i think, i could be wrong, is the subconscious sense of where your body parts are in space, allowing you to touch your nose with your eyes closed. there's vestibular sense, which balance, which is balance and spatial orientation, which is mediated by the fluid and hair cells in the inner ear. interoception, which is sensing internal states of the body like heart rate, hunger, breath, and bladder fullness. nociception, which is the perception of pain, which alerts the body to potential damage. and so, these systems are physiologically distinct from classic senses and have dedicated processing pathways. so, they suggest that if each of these sensory channels is counted separately, reach anywhere between twenty two and thirty three. and so, i think this is cool. so just to add another layer of complexity to all of this, it lies in how these senses interact. so human perception, it's not a sense of independent channels firing in isolation. instead, it's sensory inputs that are continuously integrated in the brain to form a unified and coherent experience. so for example, your sense of taste is heavily influenced by smell and touch, which is why food flavors seem richer or different when aromas are present. so, like, this just it makes total sense to me. what about you?

Speaker 0:  it makes sense. i guess i just, you know, never really thought about this because, you know, what is that feeling when you're internally, your stomach is grumbling or, you know, you're not or you're feeling hot or you're you know? so i guess i never really thought about those types of things as different types of perception, but i guess it's like, the dashboards of old 1970 sedans. you know? you just had a speedometer and a fuel gauge. you know? the modern reality your battery is more like a formula one car. you have hundreds of telemetry center sensors like monitoring tire pressure, touch and pressure, engine heat, the thermoception, chassis tilt, the vestibular, and internal fuel chemistry, the introception, all feeding into a central computer simultaneously. and i think when you start looking into this, you're gonna start to see more of the science around why they say your gut is your second brain, and it may have more control over you than you think because it has control over several, types of these, perceptions, senses.

Speaker 1:  yep. yeah. and, like, i think i think this is great. not only for understanding this for building, robotics and robots. right? but understanding these for practical implications for medicine, psychology, and rehab. like, for instance, disruption in interoception, they can be linked to anxiety and eating disorders, and balance disorders stem from vestibular dysfunction. so if you can recognize that there's a richer sensory landscape, that actually could help clinicians diagnose and treat conditions that were previously misunderstood. i think this has huge, huge implications for, the medical, medical world.

Speaker 0:  i think it does too. like, it changes i think it has effects on all areas of life that we just haven't realized yet. yeah. like, if, the sound in an airplane cabin can make taste in tomato juice more strong while softening other tastes. what other sounds, what other pressure, what other things can change your feeling and senses and enhance or, retard other feelings, right, or senses? so imagine restaurants that have the sound or volume or pressure or smells or the things that now they know, will maximize the experience of the dishes they're serving that evening. or maybe your dentist does certain things that reduces your pain receptors based on your environment around. there's a lot of interesting things when you start looking at how your body interacts and you can really start changing things in your life when you start realizing what is controlling these things. and can you change your mood or can you change how you react to things around you as a result of this?

Speaker 1:  absolutely. yeah. can they introduce things for therapy? can they introduce different sensory things to help with, with recovery? like, there's a whole bunch of there's a plethora of opportunity here for, for changing the way that people are treated for treatments. if this is phenomenal, i'm so excited about this. i love this.

Speaker 0:  so the vestibular system balance is basically a biological accelerometer and a gyroscope low located in your inner ear using fluid inertia to detect head rotation, gravitational pull, identical physics to your smartphone's screen rotation sensor. the mcgurk effect proves your brain trust vision over audio. if you see a video of lips saying, but you hear the sound, your brain will force you to hear, duh. it's a hardware bug in sensory integration. so this has been tested. it's called the bagurk effect. look it up. humans technically have a magnetoreception hardware or cryptochromones in the eye similar to migratory birds, but the software seems to be disabled or subconscious in modern humans. so we don't have to migrate south for the, summer like they

Speaker 1:  do. yeah.

Speaker 0:  so is counting, you know, itch, puretoseption, it's called, and pain, no exception as separate senses, just semantic bloating, or some argue that these are just subgenres of touch, making 33 senses claim a bit more academic, and maybe more inflated than it really is. so your high performance machine running dozens of background processes start treating your body like it. now that you know you have 33 senses, which one is malfunctioning for you today? is it your balance, your internal hunger gauge, or plain old eyesight? let us know in the chat what you're gonna work on and what you think of these studies.