Can we create new senses for humans? | David Eagleman

EVERYBODY KNOWS that human beings have five senses: vision, audition, gustation, olfaction, and somatosensation—better known as sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. But that’s not really the whole story. You don’t have to touch an open flame to feel its heat. That’s because of another sense called thermoception, the ability to detect temperatur

Your brain must figure out the meaning of those flashes and vibrations, and its main clues are your past experiences, which it constructs as simulations within its vast network of neural connections.