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-domi- t1_izrcdpr wrote

Reply to comment by JaggedMetalOs in Molecular markers of cells involved in the sixth sense — proprioception, the unconscious sense of body position and movement by marketrent

Yeah, yeah, and it all presupposes a functioning GI tract, and that's even more complex, sure. Not the point. The point i was trying to make is that i might be weird in that my intuitive proprioception feels like it mostly doesn't work. I know it's involved in coordinated motions, but that's not what i'm talking about. When we talk about it like a sixth sense - mine must be severely stinted. Like a hard of hearing person's hearing. To the point where i can be laying in bed some time and not know whether my arm is at my side or in front of my belly, so i have to move it to find out which one it is.

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JaggedMetalOs t1_izs9bag wrote

It's not unusual to loose sense of your position if you don't move for a while, but trust me if you can touch your fingers together or touch your nose with your eyes closed then your proprioception is working, you wouldn't be able to do that without looking if it wasn't.

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-domi- t1_izsc7cq wrote

Sure. Just the way in which it's working there can hardly be called a "sense." It's like calling the secretions of my esophageal mucosal membranes a sense.

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Wu-TangCrayon t1_iztngb8 wrote

It's as ridiculous as calling the movement of sound waves in your inner ear getting converted to sound signals in the brain a "sense." That's clearly just a body's subconscious mechanical function.

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-domi- t1_izvnt59 wrote

No, in very consciously aware of sounds. The tinnitus makes low sounds difficult, but i can consciously tell them apart if i try.

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