2009-02-08, 05:58 AM
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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