Humans might have 33 senses.

“We often think of perception as limited to the five traditional senses, yet modern neuroscience suggests the human body may rely on dozens of interconnected sensory systems. These senses work together continuously, shaping how we experience texture, flavor, balance, and even our sense of self. Credit: Shutterstock” ScitechDaily, You Don’t Have Just Five Senses – New Research Suggests Humans May Have up to 33)

The new study suggests that humans can have at least 33 different senses. That is a very interesting observation. This means that we have six senses: smell, taste, touch, sight, balance, and hearing. The number of those classic senses depends on whether we separate smell and taste. The interaction between humans and the environment is a multisensory experience. 

Those four senses are the senses that dominate our consequences. But then. We must realize that things like the sense of hot and the sense of cold are different. 

"The five senses. Credit: Modified by Nicolas Posunko/Skoltech from image generated by Deep Style (Abstract) model on Deep Dream Generator" (ScitechDaily, Are Five Senses Holding Us Back? Scientists Say We Could Use Seven)

Senses from the kinetic sense. We have senses that sense our hand’s angle. Also. Things like a sense of push and swipe are different senses. Body hair senses things like air low. Color view. And black and white views can be separate senses. Everything that we sense doesn’t reach consciousness. So. There is a system in our brains that selects things that we notice. But. There is a possibility. That humans. Have so-called recessive, or “silent” senses that those other senses cover. 

And one of the most interesting of those senses is the remote touch. There is a possibility that humans can feel things. That's buried in sand before we even touch them. That kind of sense, or its confirmation, requires new and more accurate research. 

"Overview of the experiment setup for tactile detection in granular media. (a) Human experiment setup, showing a participant finger raking through a sand-filled box with an LED strip guiding the trajectory and buried cube at fixed locations. (b) Robotic experiment setup, featuring a UR5 arm with a tactile sensor and a buried cube in sand. (c) Schematic of the raking process. Credit: Queen Mary University of London"(ScitechDaily, New Research Reveals Humans Have a Remote Touch “Seventh Sense”)

The question is whether. There can be a similar acoustic system in the human hand. As the sandpiper bird in its nose. Our fingers can sense the position. Where the echo comes from. In that case, the remote touch base is in acoustic signals that our bones send. 

The interesting thing is this. Can this “new” sense see only living creatures, like mussels from the sand? The big question is always this: this kind of sense requires something that activates the nervous system. There are two possible ways that sense works. 

There is a possibility. That. The sense benefits from acoustic signals from the sand. Or the sense can use ions that the creature releases to observe that thing. But. When we think. About those “new” senses, we must understand that. Things like the magnesite mineral in human neurons and the iron in the human body make it possible for people. To observe things like electric fields. 

“A new mathematical model of memory hints that seven senses, not five, may be the optimal number for maximizing mental capacity. Credit: Shutterstock” (ScitechDaily, Are Five Senses Holding Us Back? Scientists Say We Could Use Seven)

That ability makes it possible to observe other people’s minds. Telepathy means. The ability to feel and sense the electromagnetic fields that our nervous system creates. The human nervous system can act as an antenna. The small iron bites. In our neurons and blood. There is iron. Which can act as a sensor. Which. Allows humans to sense the electromagnetic field or act as an internal compass. But could that thing be so highly accurate that we can read other human thoughts? 

If we think. That. The TK, or telekinesis. It is the ability. To control other people's thoughts. There is a possibility that the TK has the ability to transmit electricity into the receiving people’s neural system. That electricity makes it possible. To control the recessive neural system. But can this ability be possible for humans? 

https://scitechdaily.com/are-five-senses-holding-us-back-scientists-say-we-could-use-seven/

https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-reveals-humans-have-a-remote-touch-seventh-sense/

https://scitechdaily.com/you-dont-have-just-five-senses-new-research-suggests-humans-may-have-up-to-33/

Why must we search for other extraterrestrial civilizations?

At the beginning of this text, I must say that not all alien life forms are probably intelligent. Most of the alien life forms that we can imagine or predict are bacteria. There is a possibility. That some bacteria or viruses can survive interstellar travel. That means their genetic material remains in a condition that it can transfer into the cells of Earth organisms. 

A virus is a protein package. There is genetic material. And that thing can survive in the freezing cold of interstellar travel. The gamma- or X-ray bursts can destroy that genetic material. But otherwise. The space between stars is very stable. It freezes genetic material almost forever. 

There are no certain observations about the alien civilizations. So, we have no confirmed observations about those still hypothetical aliens. But when do we detect them? We don’t know. But. That can happen tomorrow, or it can happen after 1000 years. 

But then, to the intelligent lifeforms. Why should we continue the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program? Because there are billions of stars in our galaxy. And there are billions of galaxies in the universe. Somewhere there must be alien civilizations. And the SETI program ends in the day, when we see that civilization. 

Here I must say one thing. Even if SETI finds another civilization. That doesn’t mean that we make contact with that civilization. This is one of the things that people must realize. But. Confirming the existence of another civilization is very difficult. 

There are a couple of so-called breakthrough listen candidate signals. Those signals are. So-called Wow! and the Alpha Centauri signals. Those signals are unique, and we don’t know how long they lasted. We know only the part of those signals that the radio telescopes captured. And that is one of the things that we must realize. The thing is that those signals happened only once. Supporting the model that they were synthetic. 

If we think that the origin of those signals is in a natural source, that means they should repeat.  But. There is a possibility. that their origin was in the reactions as the Gamma-ray burst traveled through the plasma of some star’s flares. There is a possibility that a very rare natural effect causes those signals. But. As we know. The universe is a strange place. And. It's possible that the fast energy pulse travels through plasma fields. But as we know, we must only guess how long those signals lasted. And because there are no other similar signals, we must only guess whether they are synthetic or not. 

So, why have aliens not contacted us yet? The reason for that can be that they don’t detect us. Even if we send microwaves. And radio signals all around us, we must realize that. Those signals traveled for less than 200 years. 200 light-years is quite a short distance in the scale of the Universe. 

And when we look around us, and look at things like the closest stars, we can see that we are surrounded by young stars. Sirius is the brightest star in the northern sky. Sirius is a binary star system, and the brighter component of that system is only 230 million years old. Sirius B is a white dwarf. That was once a Sun-like star. Components of that star are formed in different places and at different times. And once in history, gravity locked those stars together. If Sirius B had some kind of planetary system, Sirius A would destroy it. 

Things like mature red dwarfs can also be more suitable harbours for life than we think. A red dwarf can exist as a star far longer than the Sun. If we think that the Sun will stay. As a yellow star for about 7-10 billion years. The red dwarf can exist as a star for about 11 trillion years. The young red dwarf has a hyperactive period. Just like other young stars. Then, after the hyperactive period, the red dwarf’s planets can turn into the harbours of life. That period starts later than in the Sun-type stars.  

But it takes longer. The fact is that most of the red dwarfs near our solar system are young. The age of Proxima Centauri is about the same as the Sun's. And Wolf 359 is about 0,1-1,9 Gyr( Gigayear(10^9, or Billions of years)). The third remarkable red dwarf, Barnard’s star, is about 10 Gyr. This can explain why there are no civilizations near us. The only star system that is the same age as our sun is the Alpha Centauri system. Those stars (Alpha Centauri A, B, and Proxima Centauri) are all about the same age as the Sun. 

Another thing is that. The alien civilization might not hear us. The universe is full of radio sources. But the thing is that. We don’t know what those aliens look like, how they communicate, or where they are. We don’t know anything about their culture. And we certainly hope that we detect them before they detect us. The third thing that we can hope for is that the alien civilization is not as destructive as we are. But. If we someday detect an intelligent civilization, we must carefully think. About our next step. We must realize that those aliens can be hostile. But when do we detect them? As I wrote many times. That can happen tomorrow or after 1000 years. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard%27s_Star

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLC1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_359

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

A Saturn-sized rogue planet travels in space.

"A rare combination of Earth- and space-based observations has revealed the true mass and location of a rogue planet drifting through the galaxy. The Saturn-sized world likely formed around a star before being violently ejected into interstellar space. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com" (ScitechDaily, A Saturn-Sized Planet Is Drifting Through Space Alone)

Rogue planets are wandering around the universe. Those planets have no stars, and they can enter other solar systems. When a nova or supernova eruption occurs. The planet. That is, in a very distant orbit to its star. Can. Be flung into interstellar space. Those explosions are very violent, but the shockwave can push distant planets. 

To the journey that ends somehow. Another star can capture those planets, or they can fall into black holes. But when we think about our future. Those rogue planets cause an existing danger. If they travel to our solar system. The large rogue planet can pull even large objects out of their trajectory. So, maybe. Someday, some large rogue planet will force us to develop an antimatter bomb. That can destroy that planet before it destroys us. 

Velikovsky’s Venus and the lost planet Vulcan.

What if Velikovsky’s Venus was a rogue planet that fell into the Sun? And what if the mythic Vulcan planet was a planet that fell to the Sun because of some cosmic impact? This doesn’t mean that those things are connected to each other. But. They are interesting things to think about. The fact is that the planet can fall into the Sun because of its atmospheric friction. A large asteroid can be mistaken for a planet. 

But then. An interesting idea. Came to my mind. That thing is about a theorem. Which was written by Immanuel Velikovsky, who claimed that the things. That happened in the Old Testament, in the Holy Bible. Like. Splitting the Red Sea happened because. Some other planet traveled across our solar system. Velikovsky suspected that the planet was Venus, but Velikovsky was wrong. Today, Velikovsky is described as a pseudohistorian. But what if Velikovsky had written the word “Rogue planet” instead of the word “Venus”?

In the time of Velikovsky, there was no idea of rogue planets. This means that it's possible. If a rogue planet traveled across the solar system and fell into the Sun. That would not leave any mark on the solar system. 

Another interesting idea is connected to Vulcan, the mythic planet inside Mercury’s trajectory. What if that mythic planet simply fell to the sun? We know that Vulcan does not exist. But maybe in history. There were planets that were impacted. With an asteroid. And then that asteroid could push that planet toward the Sun. But as I wrote, planets can also fall to stars without dramatic events. Or it can vaporize. 

When the flare eruption hits the planet. That can turn a planet into vapor. Especially if it's in melted form. The Vulcan, if it existed, must be pure lava. The solar eruption can destroy this kind of planet very fast. It's possible that Vulcan simply evaporized when it moved close to the sun. 

https://scitechdaily.com/a-saturn-sized-planet-is-drifting-through-space-alone/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)

A village, surrounded by monsters.

 

Did you ever see M. Night Shyamalan's movie “The Village”? That is the story of the village. These people believed. The monstrous creatures surrounded it. In the final part of the movie. The main character realizes that the “monster” was a scarecrow. The fact is that the village has been isolated for maybe hundreds of years. Because. Villagers didn’t have any contact. To the outside world, they thought that the car engine sound was the monster’s roar. 

This thing introduces a situation. That. The limited information allows people to do. That thing is one of the key elements in societies that are under totalitarian control. The Village from that movie exists. The macro version of that village. Are Russia and North Korea, where the controller tells people that they are surrounded by hostile characters, who. Want to destroy their paradise. So those people must stand strong in command. The micro version of those villages is in the sects. Those leaders say that people laugh. To the real believers. And that means, they use similar methods. That keeps the fictional village under control. 

The fact is that M. Night Shyamalan didn’t create that isolated society. Those isolated societies existed long before M. Night Shyamalan was even born. Medieval castles and monasteries were also isolated. In medieval cities, people believed that the forests around their city walls. Were. Full of monsters. Those stories were told so that people would not escape. The thing that separated medieval monks from other people was that they spoke Latin. With each other. Another thing was that people almost never visit castles. That thing is guaranteed. That medieval noblemen would stay loyal to the king. There was no ability to grow food in most of the castles. That made it possible to control those castles in the case that the lord of the castle refuses to follow orders. 

The internet is full of stories about how bad the smell was in those castles. The fact is that. The people who lived and worked in the castle were used to that smell, which formed when spices were burned in the fire. The purpose of that smell. Was. To keep outsiders away from those places. And that was one of the things that isolated those people. The medieval segregation. It is one of the things. That can reflect on modern days. We can say that maybe all of us live in M. Night Shyamalan’s village. Rich people hire security guards because they are afraid that some gangs rob their homes. Medieval lords of the castle believed similar things. That’s why those people had soldiers and cannons to protect them. 

We can believe that we cannot go to that isolated village. We have internet, cell phones, and many other things. But. The fact is that the information that we get. And. How. Do. We get. That information. Determines. Do we believe it? Or not. It’s possible. That somebody stuns us. When we visit the shop. Then that person keeps us in a narcosis for a while. After we wake up, our host tells us that. The Earth is badly polluted, and then orders us to check the data. From the net. The host uses the fake information to confess that this person is not a liar. In that case, we have no choice but to check that information. And do we dare to test things that person tells us?

 Do we dare to start traveling to the nearest village? Especially if we were in the middle of the icy stream. That person can take us to the Alps. Or somewhere. Where we just cannot see other houses. That person can tell stories that. We are in the middle of Antarctica. There is a possibility. That prisoners are in regular houses. And all the information that prisoners get. Comes from the screens that are in the windows. This is the idea of North Korea. People get only the information that they are allowed to get. 

Are anti-science, religious movements, and unemployment connected to each other?

When preachers speak to their audience. They tell. What people want to hear. And that makes them dangerous. “Why must people educate, when they can gain joy and piety?” This is how cult leaders market their cult. They offer joy and happiness, and of course, they carry the heaviest of the weight. They think for their society. Education gives the ability to resist 

There are used chemicals. Those cults sometimes prohibit doctors who are not accepted by their leaders. This means their members are not warned about things like drugs. 

This is why some medieval religious leaders. Once said. That “education brings responsibility and takes joy from life”.  And then that leader said. “Stupid people are happy people; they don’t rebel, they don’t ask, and they believe everything that this leader said.“ This attitude supported the absolute power of the King. 

The king ruled because. God wanted that. And that’s why resisting or excusing the kind was a crime against heaven. And the god himself. That allowed the Inquisition to burn people: Who? Dare to excuse the king in a bonfire. The reason for anti-education attitudes was simple: people cannot demand change. If they don’t know any other models than those they see. Or, the models that their leaders want to introduce. 

When an unemployed, poor, and uneducated person hangs around, there is a strong possibility. Those people will attract. Into some sects that take advantage of them. So, can we consider that the reason for modern anti-science attitudes is the situation where unemployed people are attracted to some “right-wing religious movement”? The attraction happens by promising food to those people. If those people get free food. They might go to those meetings. That saves. Their social security money is to be used for something other than food. Those religious movements are very sharp. For their members ’ morale. 

That means they collect smartphones away, and offer basic phones. To replace those smartphones. The reason. Why that is done, is that done? The internet is full of sin. Then they will go to sell those phones. And of course, things like social media are always prohibited. There, people can get things. Like warnings about those cults.  

Those preachers offer simple reasons why their audience feels so bad. If people in the audience have alcohol problems. or drug problems, they search for outside reasons for their problems. And those preachers offer them those outside reasons. If they get. A little bit more money. Their lifestyle will be better. They offer things that those people want to hear. 

The anti-science can make those people seem strange. That isolates them from the rest of society. And this makes. Those people get support and acceptance from those events. And finally, all the people that those cult members know are other cult members. That allows those cults to tighten their grip. To its members. And of course. The person who invites those cults must be fully involved. That means there must not have. Any smartphones or computers. Or the internet. That allows the leaders to control information that is not meant for those people. 

Those people must not talk to other people, because other people, or outsiders, don’t understand what real believing is. When an outsider comes to talk with cult members, a real cult member just turns their back. The cult member. Must get only accepted information, and they must not know anything other than what their guides or leaders want. 

Far wing movements can offer things. Like food to make people come to their events. It’s possible that those movements can also put drugs in those foods. And then they can make sure. That people come to their events again. 

Three major hazards in modern society are anti-science, poverty, and unemployment. Poverty means that people leave their schools, because they want to earn money. Then, in later ages, the earnings of uneducated people were. Can earn. Are not. Very good. Actually, uneducated people. Earn low salaries. But. Those salaries might feel very high. If a person has not earned anything. And lived 5 €. Income per week. Before a person must pay for everything from their living, things like a cleaner or a hamburger clerk can feel very high-paid jobs. But in the later ages. Money from those works is not enough. 

Or, maybe. The workplace faces bankruptcy. There are billions of reasons why a person is fired. That thing brings unemployment and many other things into a person’s life. And maybe that thing explains anti-science attitudes. People who are working in the “religious right-wing movements” offer the reason for poverty and low social status, the educational and research institutes. Like universities.

And then... Remember Jim Jones and the People’s Temple. In that case, the cult leader stole the entire property of his followers. Then that charismatic cult leader murdered his followers. That is not only the case when a charismatic leader attracts followers to commit suicide in their order. Another case was Waco, Texas, when David Koresh, another cult leader, caused the so-called. The Waco incident, in which he and his followers committed suicide and killed other cult members. 

When the police (ATF, FBI) came to arrest them. The case began when ATF came. To conduct home research on that cult’s HQ ranch. That caused a firefight, there 4 federal officers died. Then the FBI came and surrounded the ranch, and that caused a siege that took 51 days. Then the FBI began an assault, and 82 cult members died, including 20 children. 76 of them, including children, and Koresh, died in the second assault. When the FBI. Started to use CS (Tear Gas).  In that assault, the Ranchians set their houses. To burn. It’s possible that the reason why those people made the decision to kill themselves was the earlier firefight against the ATF, where they killed four on-duty ATF agents. 

Earlier,  on April 19, 1993. 6 cult members killed on February 28,1993 in a firefight against ATF. Killing four federal officers causes the death penalty. The fact is that the Waco incident shows what a manipulative and cold-blooded mind can do. It also shows what fanaticism. And other things make in cases. Their religion and law are not in line. Another thing is that anti-science, or fashionably “science criticism,” causes a situation where vaccines that are effective against biological weapons are not delivered to people. This means that science criticism can be controlled. By forces that wish to use those bacteria or viruses against people. 

Those people say that universities and scientific institutes waste taxpayers' money on things like space flights, when they could use that money for social security. The thing is that. Poor people are packing into those religious events because at least some of those religious movements offer food to people who come to listen to the words about god. So, poor, unemployed, and uneducated people can use their social security for something other than money. When they visit in those meetings. 

This means people who think that things. That universities make are far from their own world. Who has. No will or ability  to challenge authorities. Or  people who tell simple things. To them. They might believe that scientific institutes just waste money, which the government can use for social security. The charismatic speakers offer some outsiders whom their audience can blame. 

A person who has bad self-esteem, is uncertain, and who might misuse drugs can feel that those preachers give them. Some outsiders to blame. Those outsiders are homosexuals, and of course, people who want to excuse things that preachers say. Some of those. People think that slips and suits are things that make those preachers wise. 

That makes those people easy to manipulate. This thing made it possible for people like the famous cult leader Jim Jones to order his followers to commit suicide. In the same way, anti-vaccine propaganda opens society to things like biological weapons. This means that in the wrong movement, a person can lose money, clothes, everything they own, and finally, they can give their lives for “wise men” who lead them. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege

Christmas is here.

Christmas is here. Now it is Christmas night. The night should be the celebration of mercy. But sometimes that thing causes trauma. Christmas is the celebration of something that should be mercy. But the thing is that the mercy sometimes hurts people. When we talk about religion we always see some far-wing representations and their opinions about that thing. 

And today. We can think about our relationship with god. Science is like a thin corridor. The thin corridor means that all knowledge that we have is somehow limited. The thing is that. 

We all travel in thin corridors. We can say that knowledge makes the thin corridors. When we make some new models. We must justify those things by using comprehensive research.  If we don't use empirical research. And empiric methods those things are not different from opinions. 

If we want to have deep knowledge of things like computing. We need time to learn those things. 

That means. That time is away from something else. 

The thin corridor means that if we want to have deep knowledge of something. We must realize that there are lots of things that we should know. 

But when we talk about the idea that the only thing that we need is god's love, we must understand that we need also food and other kinds of things. The other thing is that. We have the right to talk about the god. Even if we have different opinions than some other people. 

If we want to think about the god. And god's relationship with the material. And the universe. We can say that the god is substance. 

The substance that existence and abilities depend on itself. But if the god is a substance that means there should be something that creates this substance. The thing is that god is one thing that we can handle by thinking of that thing as an intelligent and powerful structure in the universe. 

Sir Isaac Newton said that the universe is like a clock. And that means. God must have a willingness to help people. 

If we want to make the god angry we can close our eyes and walk on the streets. Believing that god saves us.

And should not disturb god without a good reason. But there are also many other ways to think about the god. But then we can say that the god.  And other things are sometimes very uncomfortable topics for discussion.  There is a good way to cheat people. The other person asks. Do other people believe in god? 

The other person starts to say. That the person who says "yes" believes in some "superstition". During that discussion. The people say that their grandmother believes, etc. In that situation, the people press their company to make "confessions". And that thing is a very traumatic way to discuss about religion. 

The night before Christmas.

It's the night before Christmas. That is the night when Santa Claus collects final reports from his assistants. And makes decisions about what kind of gifts people deserve. Good people get good gifts that make them happy. Bad people get bad gifts that make them unhappy. So what gift will you want or what gift will you give to your best friend or your worst enemy? The village is waiting...

Here is no snow. So we might want a white Christmas and snow back. The thing is that we wait for gifts and Santa Claus. But the fact is that. Humans are the things that make Christmas. We are the thing that makes feelings and memories. So what can we give to everybody? We can say that the gift that we can give is knowledge. We can develop technology that makes Earth a better place. Earth is warming. 

And we can make things that slow that warming.  But somehow. Even if we know. That global temperature rises. We cannot make any things that we can slow the temperature rise. The night before Christmas is the moment before truth. We might ask for many types of gifts. Somebody might even promise some gifts to us. But tomorrow we see if will we get any gifts. 

The night before Christmas is the time to wait. Will people who we want to meet come? Or are they sick? There are many things that we might want to promise before Christmas. And there are many promises to us. But are those promises only promises, that repeat one Christmas after one? Maybe those promises are like some Christmas tails. They might be like some Christmas novels. "Next year we..." and then, so what? That thing ever happens. 

The night before Christmas is a time to think. What do we want? Do we want things that nobody even can make? And do we think that the merchandise is the thing that makes Christmas better? Do you think that Santa Claus brings you something like sportscars or something like that? The thing is that Santa doesn't bring that kind of gift even in the stories. The gifts that Santa Claus brings are always something that people cannot take them away. They are something so special that nobody can even imagine those things. So does Santa exist? 

That thing is standing in the supermarket and sharing candies with people. But maybe we see the shadow of the sled and man pulled by raindeers traveling over the moon. Maybe Santa Claus is meant for people. Who want to keep their Christmas spirit over their life from childhood to old-timers. Maybe we don't believe that character, but it would be nice to be nice to people. And maybe Santa Claus can help us to make those things.