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Of the five senses, which one is most important?
#21
Even when excluding grandiose things like feeling EM waves, light and so forth, touch wins by a landslide.

After that, I'd say hearing & sight are roughly tied. Smell is more important than taste (particularly since a lot of your taste is based on smell...)
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#22
Touch hands down is the most important sense.
Imagine walking with out the reaction of your body KNOWING contact with stuff.
You'd be unable to do anything really.
You'd have to rely on sight and sound- the two most deceptive senses we have.
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#23
Stereo Wrote:Sound requires an atmosphere, and it's prone to much lower range limits & interference than sight. You can't "hear" a football game, because there's too much random crowd noise. You can't hear in space, cause there's no air.

IMO, if you're taking a blind person to a football game, you would just cause unnecessary stresses on that person. Trying to explain the details of a football game to a blind person from birth can be a huge task.

We dont normally train our senses and in fact, we're abusing it too often. Its important to have certain syncronizations, eg eye-hand coordination, which increases the gray area of our brain. An example of this is a juggler. Footballers have pretty good eye-leg coords.

A blind person would tune their ears to recognize beyond what we normally bothered to. A good marjong player would "feel" their drawing dice, like how blind players read.
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#24
Sight
I don't need to hear, if i can read
I don't need to feel...at all really
I don't need to smell or taste (same thing really), because they're just bonuses...or horrible disgusting-nesses
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#25
Touch by far. It's the only one that is absolutely vital to your survival.

I'd put Sight before Hearing, but they're pretty close.

And I think most people agree on Smell and Taste being lesser senses than those three.
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#26
Sight. I'm already mostly deaf as it is (bet you guys didn't know that, eh?)
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#27
Touch is by far the most important sense. Touch is vital to human development. Infants deprived of their "mother's touch" are less healthy than infants who do receive it. Touch is also vital to survival. If pricked by a needle, without a sense of touch, you would be unable to sense that your hand is being pricked and that you should probably pull away. Likewise, touch is one way that people con communicate, can feel their position in space, ect. Touch can not only be used to sense pain, it can be used for comfort. A distraught individual can hug his girlfriend for comfort. Likewise, a young infant may retreat to it's mother for warmth. These attributes of touch fits in with the importance for a humans' need to belong.
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#28
Sight is more important to be because I'm scared of everything going dark.
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#29
crewe127 Wrote:Sight
I don't need to hear, if i can read
I don't need to feel...at all really
I don't need to smell or taste (same thing really), because they're just bonuses...or horrible disgusting-nesses
How can you walk if you can't feel.Glitter
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#30
I would like to go without feel for about a day, only because I can't seem to figure out what it would be like.

I know what it would be like to not see, hear, taste and smell, but not what it would be like without feeling for some reason.
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