[boxer21]

I always enjoy reading articles or essays of this nature because they are mind stretching. At the same time, those wizards might want to step back and look at things practically: we have five senses that evolved to keep us alive and to reproduce; along came a mutation that separated us from the apes and monkeys but beyond that, all animal life forms possess the same senses.

The wizards exhibit the height of arrogance when they purport to understand and explain the universe to us thinking that their five monkey senses will unveil and reveal the mystery of the universe to us. Something like Algore wanting to control the earth’s climate.

[muawiyah]

6 senses ~ there are critters who detect magnetic fields. 7 senses ~ there are critters who detect electric fields.

We could carry this on to even more "senses". The skin, for example, has sensory cells for a wide variety of events ~ pressure, heat, cold, pain, etc.

Not all critters have, or need, all senses currently in use.

We humans are special. If we need to see across the galaxy we have it in our power to build space telescopes.

[lentulusgracchus]

The wizards exhibit the height of arrogance when they purport to understand and explain the universe to us thinking that their five monkey senses will unveil and reveal the mystery of the universe to us.

Agree. How many dimensions are the mathematicians and subatomic physicists predicting now? It is 11, or 17? Something like that. And we have only five, stretch six, senses with which to apprehend them.