Of the five senses, which one is most important?

Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, Touch.

doesn't have to be in terms of survival

in most ancient folk stories or stories of morality, the one that ends up healed is usually the blind.

i don't really have an input on this.. but i wonder what most people think.

If I had to choose one of the five, I'd choose Sight.

common sence, humans lack that so much....

Depends from person to person and what they're good at and what their strengths are. For myself, being a pianist, the most important would be hearing, followed by touch then sight.

You can play piano without your eyes but you can't without your ears. As for touch, you have to be able to feel the keys and the many different ways of pressing down keys and adjust accordingly so... yeah.

tl;dr: hearing followed by touch and sight

Depends from person to person and what they're good at and what their strengths are. For myself, being a pianist, the most important would be hearing, followed by touch then sight.

You can play piano without your eyes but you can't without your ears.

A Beethoven says what?



I'd agree sight.

IMO, touch and sight are the two most important that would be the worst to live without.

actually.. im starting to think touch is the most important. if your blind, you can feel your way through situations; if your deaf, you can feel rythms and beats; if your taste blind, you can determine by the texture of foods(?); and if you can't smell, well i don't know.

I'd say touch is the most important. Look at Helen Keller: deaf and blind, and she managed to do alright.

Yes, sight is important too, but if you couldn't feel anything, you wouldn't be able to feel pain. Even though it sounds nice to not ever experience pain, it is actually very important in keeping ourselves out of trouble. Pain tells you not to touch a hot stove. Pain tells you not to cut yourself with a knife. Pain tells you not to walk on a broken leg. Pain tells you not to whiz on the electric fence.

Personally, I might be able to live without ever seeing, hearing, smelling, or tasting (yum) my fiance again. I don't know if I'd be able to handle not ever feeling him hold my hand, or kiss me on the cheek, or give me all that good lovin'.

It's hearing/sound that's important. If you can hear, supposedly, you should be able to dodge. Even if you're a mute and you're blind. Though, if you can't touch or smell, using your hearing alone is going to be a BIT hard.

Eternal numbness? No way.

Touch > hearing > sight. Hearing more than sight because... well, watch a muted movie and you'll see - or hear - what I mean.

Personally, I've come to believe that being deaf could lead to being mute. IMO, sight is one of the least important (yet most relied on) senses, because we're just so used to it.

The Dare Devil sees with his ears. But Marvel (fiction) aside, bats doesnt use their eyes to get around. Technologies are being developed that direction to help bind people gets around. IMO, sound and touch are the 2 most important senses.

Touch seems the most important.

If you can't feel, you can't sense pain. Darwinism is a peach.

Plus, if you can't feel yourself, it's hard to use your body parts effectively. Have you ever tried waking up with your arm asleep trying to turn off the alarm? ._.

I'm not going to need sight, sound, smell, or taste when I'm jerking off.

Touch > Sight > Hearing > Smell = Taste.

Smell and Taste win the prize for being the most worthless of the senses.

Sight is the most important to me - there are simply too many beautiful things in this world to go without seeing it. I've always loved staring at anything that just randomly strikes me as visually appealing .

Touch is next - I use touch to communicate a lot irl, where words don't seem to come to me as easily as when I'm typing. Touch is extremely important in relationships, both in and out of the bedroom, it can convey a lot that words cannot, and can have a much more profound impact on someone.

Hearing is third - hearing gives early warnings of things that your other senses won't catch, and is key to detecting subtleties in verbal communications. Sarcasm and emotion are extremely numbed when you can't hear the intonation of a person's voice (re: it's a hell of a lot easier to miscommunicate when you only have words to go off of)

Taste is fourth - taste is pleasure. Without taste, eating would be just another mundane daily activity that wastes away your life. Taste is key in detecting harmful substances before they are fully consumed (re: something that tastes unusual is usually spit out).

Finally, smell - smell, while useful, doesn't do much that other senses can't, and is often more harmful than beneficial, especially with the relatively weak sense of smell that humans are born with. Foul odors can generate physical ailments (nausea, queasiness, dizziness, even vomiting), though some people claim that certain odors can bring minor medical benefits. Without smell, nobody would need deodorant f3

If I could only have one of these sense I would chose taste most likely. I want to enjoy my last meal, which wouldn't be long after I lost my senses...

If I was born that way, well, then I would have to wait until I could think about how much life sucks with only 1 sense.

I don't really care about practicality...so I will go with sight. I have always been a very visually-oriented person and to not be able to see the world around me I think would be very devastating. Also when you only have one sense of 5, how much enjoyment of life will you really be getting.

I don't really care about practicality...so I will go with sight. I have always been a very visually-oriented person and to not be able to see the world around me I think would be very devastating. Also when you only have one sense of 5, how much enjoyment of life will you really be getting.

You will get no enjoyment. I doubt anyone could be very happy with ONE sense. That is why I would honestly commit suicide if I was limited to one sense.

If you have an extremely sensitive touch, you'd able to see and hear quite well (You can feel gamma-rays, x-rays, microwaves, ultraviolet light, so why not light? That gives you the possibility to see, and hear.). Smell and taste is possible to live without, though it would be handy to know when the food's poisoned or not.

Personally, I've come to believe that being deaf could lead to being mute. IMO, sight is one of the least important (yet most relied on) senses, because we're just so used to it.

The Dare Devil sees with his ears. But Marvel (fiction) aside, bats doesnt use their eyes to get around. Technologies are being developed that direction to help bind people gets around. IMO, sound and touch are the 2 most important senses.

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.

I guess touch would be ok, if it's a pretty open definition (being able to "feel" EM waves seems like cheating to me, it should be limited to nearby electrostatic interactions, the physical 'touch')