Gardenlover
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I'd say smell and sound. A certain smell can bring back childhood memories. And no lesson reinforced with music is ever forgotten.
Please share your thoughts...
Please share your thoughts...
What are humans two strongest senses?
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horseless carriage
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Smell & sound is right. My wife can pick up on a fart in a crowd and then follow her nose to the culprit.
Marcy Sheiner
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It's unanimous: smell and sound! For the reasons noted by the OP.
ChiroDoc
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If I recall my embryology studies, the ability to smell is the first part of the brain that's developed. So it's obviously the most important to nature.
It's so powerful that one can catch a wiff of a smell that one hasn't smelled in decades, and it can take us back to that exact time and place.
It's so powerful that one can catch a wiff of a smell that one hasn't smelled in decades, and it can take us back to that exact time and place.
Gardenlover
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Too funny!
That Lady in PA
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Sight and sound for me.
so much is learned and processed via the eyes!
so much is learned and processed via the eyes!
Babs2u
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I agree.
OneEyedDiva
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But why would she want to?!
I was thinking smell and taste, but sound is also an important one HC.
dobielvr
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Toss up...touch is very important. I'll make that my #1, then smell then sight.
Yes. Hellen Keller. She was deaf and blind. But because of touch what she did with her life was totally amazing. People like her inspire me.
David777
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When I first read this thread title, I expected members would ambiguously interpret it in different ways.
How does one measure the strength of one sense versus another? What might that be referring to to? Is simple visceral intensity alone a measurable factor? Or is it a logarithmic range of sensitivities low to high?
Like how strong the perceptual awareness feels like:
And from this mr dave says comparing senses overall is in part like apples to oranges. So just asking that terse question only makes sense if a comparison is narrowly defined. Like:
1. Do you notice the sense of vision, smell, or taste more while starting to eat a hot pepper?
2. Are you more likely to be able to go to sleep on a bed in a shared motel room while wearing a light blocking head shield in a room where:
How does one measure the strength of one sense versus another? What might that be referring to to? Is simple visceral intensity alone a measurable factor? Or is it a logarithmic range of sensitivities low to high?
Like how strong the perceptual awareness feels like:
- a loud sound
- strong whack to the skin
- a hot pepper
- On a day Dad brings the family to a woodland park, the happy running around family dog chasing fleeing screaming laughing kids like its a chase game, after the dog tangled poorly with a skunk.
- The blindingly bright surface of a bright alpine snowfield at mid day?
- But then someone else says the strongest sense is the most important overall.
- Another argument says science considers eyesight the most valuable for humans.
- Then another suggests, the strongest sense is the one uses and relies on the most.
- Another says, its smell because its the evolutionary oldest or first.
And from this mr dave says comparing senses overall is in part like apples to oranges. So just asking that terse question only makes sense if a comparison is narrowly defined. Like:
1. Do you notice the sense of vision, smell, or taste more while starting to eat a hot pepper?
2. Are you more likely to be able to go to sleep on a bed in a shared motel room while wearing a light blocking head shield in a room where:
- With room lights on, other people were sitting in chairs reading magazines.
- Someone had a TV on with speakers at Medium loudness.
- The guy was watching an old Scifi movie eating really greasy warm popcorn.
- A friend in the top bunk across the room went to sleep in moments and is making snoring sounds like an agonized dying animal.
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