Talk:Somatosensory system

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I teach Tai Chi. I am interested in studies or research conducted on the Somatosensory system in relation to a persons balance and stimulas interpreation. The purpose of my interest to dymystify Tai Chi for the Western practioner.

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we have an organ in the inner ear that tells us our orientation (except when we spin and get dizzy because the fluid sloshes around). what is this sense called, what is the organ called, and why is it not considered a sense like the others or listed in the article? Thank you. 87.97.8.96 12:23, 11 July 2006 (UTC).[reply]

It's the vestibular sense, and most psychologists now acknowledge its existence, along with the kinaesthetic sense.

Just a few Questions

Are senses sent to the brain as electronic pulses through the nervous system? What if these could be copied and (faked) and sent to someone's mind? Would they experience it like a new world?

I think they would, just like the matrix did with Neo. You can probe certain parts of the brain and hear something (temporal lobe in that case), or see something (occipital lobe). It's put directly into that system in your brain while normally it would passed from one of your sensory organs. I wonder if we'll ever have the tech to make something like this that stimulates your brain, preferrably magnets rather than something you jack into it. You could say, take a jacuzzi, a cool breeze stuff like that. 68.189.243.160 (talk) 15:55, 26 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]