> From: brewhaha@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
> To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:25:17 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Fractint] FOTD 25-03-10 (Window of Opportunuty [6])
>
> From: "Jim Muth" <jamth@mindspring.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 8:54 PM
> (...)
> > The next FOTD is due in 24 hours. I'll give an 87-1/2-percent
> > chance that it will make it. Until next time, take care, and
> > rational skeptics fear that the world we observe with our five
> > senses (the physical universe) might be but an infinitesimal
> > part of the totality of existence.
> (...)
> If you count balance and distinguish between touch and heat,
> then you hav seven physical senses: sight, sound, touch, heat,
> smell, taste, balance. Someone might say that taste and smell
> are closely allied, and they are. One is gas chemistry. The other
> is liquid chemistry. Someone might say that touch and heat
> travel along the same nerves. They do, and they're encoded
> with different transmission chemicals or different firing rates
> or something, because you do not need to touch anything
> to feel radiant heat, and it is a different sensation than pressure.
> Someone might say that sight and balance are closely allied,
> and they are. The vast majority of people hav felt the room
> continue to spin (after a real spin) while their eyes are closed,
> though, so the vast majority of people can perceive balance
> without visual references to perceive up. Seven physical senses.
>

And if you allow that birds navigate with the earth's magnetic field then eight?

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