Been doing some thinking

rex-x wrote: »

This was the most appropriate place I could think of for this

How likely is it that there are more experiences that we can not see/feel as in if we were blind we would not know things had a image, same as if we had no smell we would never know smells existed etc

I know its unlikely we can ever know the answer due to not having such features, if any are out there that is but it has me facinated

Well there are other colours that we cannot see due to the limitations of our eyes, and sounds we cannot hear because they are outside the range of our hearing. There does seem to be some evidence that there are some skills that only a few people have - like water divining - it may be some sort of a spoof, but most of the doubt is because most of us cannot do it. Also the people who say they can taste colours. Is that individual senses getting mixed somehow, or is it something else that most of us have not developed.

There was a very good Horizon documentary about this kind of thing the other night
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vhw1d

It explored the idea of sensed blending and overriding each other, including a cool example where the presented said "Ba" repeatedly but if you were shown him mouthing the word "Fa" you heard the sound "Fa", however if you closed you eyes or looked away from the screen you heard "Ba" again, this works whether you know about it or not.

Colour influencing flavour was another good one.

There was also a guy that was blind from a very young age that could move about and cycle using echo location based on clicking noises made with his tongue.

The main point seems to be that the brain as a whole is the sense organ with plasticity of function allowing a variety of inputs to be synthesized into a perception in a given situation. The "lack of faith" could possibly be rephrased as not trusting what your brain is telling you because of preconceptions as to the nature of your senses.