Scouting Party
Posted by prashant on January 14, 2004
Q: how can human know about his sixth sense and how he can improve on it?
A: Sense organs obtain information both inside and outside an organism's body and relay that information to the nervous system. Although we usually speak of humans as having 5 senses, we really have more if we count those monitoring internally. However, the 5 external senses of touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste are the obvious ones and ones usually discussed. When one speaks of a "sixth sense" one is describing some kind of intuitive sense about something that can't be scientifically explained. For example, if you have a hunch about something that's going to happen and it does, you might tell a friend that you just "knew" it was going to happen. You can't really explain it, but it seemed to be there nonetheless. No one has shown that a "sixth sense" actually exists, but that won't keep many people from thinking that it does. As far as improving a "sixth sense", I haven't a clue!
John Wiessinger ( January 15, 2004)