Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Humans could have as many as 33 senses

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par Barry Smith, Director of the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we’re more alert we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, the stiffness in our shoulders, the softness of bread.

In the morning, we may feel the tingle of toothpaste, hear and feel the running water in the shower, smell the shampoo, and later the aroma of freshly brewed coffee.

Aristotle told us there were five senses. But he also told us the world was made up of…

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