The five senses - part two

It is well know that sometimes when one of the senses is not functioning properly, other senses take over, becoming more sensitive. Someone that's visually impaired could perhaps be able through touch, sound and smell to recognize details of the environment that not even people with 20/20 vision can.


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The senses are our main source of information when it comes to interacting with the world. If we were not able to see, feel, smell, taste or hear, then how would we know what is happening around us? If we were not able to know what is happening around us, then how would we respond?

Let's imagine a little experiment. Let's suppose we had a funky gadget that would shut off, one by one, our senses for a few days:

hearing -- gone
smells -- gone
visuals -- gone
touch and all sensory perceptions -- gone
taste -- gone

What do you think would happen?