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What you were taught

Humans have five senses

What we know now

While the traditional five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) are fundamental, modern science recognizes many more, including proprioception (sense of body position), nociception (pain), thermoception (temperature), and equilibrioception (balance), among others.

Updated understanding emerged around 1990

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