What are the current number of human senses known to scientists?
A sense is a method by which you can detect information about your environment. So, there are generally 5 ways to gather info; visual, audible, olfactory, tactile, and of course by taste. Personally, I think that sensing HEAT is perhaps one of the most basic and important things you can do as an organism, so I would call that a sense, and in fact it is considered a sense in animals like sharks and snakes that have highly developed sensory systems for heat detection, so that might make 6. There are several senses that regard the status of your own body, instead of the external world, but I know little about their names, or whether they are scientifically accepted. So again, generally speaking there are 5 scientifically recognized “senses” in humans. Other creatures may have more or less, or completely different senses.
