Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Information Gravy: The Five Senses of the Human Body

The human body has ways of finding out what's in the world around us. These senses response to stimuli that tell us if something is essentially pleasant or decidedly unpleasant:

Visual (sight)
Auditory (hearing)
Olfactory (smell)
Tactile (touch)
Gustatory Images (taste)

If you had to pick one sense that was hundreds of magnitudes greater than the rest, which would it be?

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