...that cognitive psychologists tell us is our "most important" special sense, it is hearing. It is the last one we lose as we die, and probably the first that "awakens" in the womb. Smell is probably our most primitive sense, tied to very deep areas of the limbic system, our emotional center. The end organs for smell, the olfactory bulbs, are actually direct extensions of the brain itself.
Taste keeps us alive--people who lose their senses of taste may actually starve.
Yet it is vision that's the star. We see, we observe, we lust, we appreciate, we communicate,
and we love with our eyes.
Yet it is still the brain that does it all--we can hear without ears, taste without taste buds, see without eyes, smell in our deepest memory--and love without them all.
The senses serve the brain, the mind, and ultimately are only a part of who we are.
Too cool!
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