how can there be conditions that make you not feel specifically pain or make you not have a gag reflex? Touch is such a broad sense that it seems strange for a defect to single out one aspect and not at least dampen ones sense of touch as a whole.

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how can there be conditions that make you not feel specifically pain or make you not have a gag reflex? Touch is such a broad sense that it seems strange for a defect to single out one aspect and not at least dampen ones sense of touch as a whole.

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We think of humans as having 5 senses, but this isn’t strictly true.

Humans have closer to 14 to 21 senses depending how you catergorise them.

Touch is a very broad and simplistic way of categorizing human sense, in reality touch is several really complex systems that overlap. Damage one system and others can still be running.

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