Poll: If you had to lose one sense, what would it be?
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Sight, because, though we make it out to be the best sense of all, when it comes down to it sight can be lost and you can train your other senses to work overtime to cover for it (smell for dangerous presences, hearing for imminent obstructions, touch for motor control etc.)
So many comments are saying sight because you can train other senses. have they not considered how they would play games?
I can't really decide. But I know not smell, sight or hearing (all of which are important in a chem lab).
Games are inconsequential. Fun and thought provoking at times, yes, but basically a luxury. If I had to lose any sense, I'd lose sight because:
Taste is important in detecting diseased and poisoned food;
Smell is important for detecting dangers such as fires and gas leaks, as well as playing a major part in taste;
Hearing allows me to navigate well enough, as well as hearing incoming obstacles and perils;
Touch allows me to, again, navigate my way around, as well as avoid hot, cold or other potentially dangerous aspects of the environment.
Sight is useful, but it does nothing the other four in tandem cannot do and sometimes sells us short. Thus, I'd lose sight.
Taste is important in detecting diseased and poisoned food;
Smell is important for detecting dangers such as fires and gas leaks, as well as playing a major part in taste;
Hearing allows me to navigate well enough, as well as hearing incoming obstacles and perils;
Touch allows me to, again, navigate my way around, as well as avoid hot, cold or other potentially dangerous aspects of the environment.
Sight is useful, but it does nothing the other four in tandem cannot do and sometimes sells us short. Thus, I'd lose sight.
Smell or taste. One hinges upon the other...though, actually, I'd go with taste. At least with smell I could detect foreboding scents.
Damn.. I voted smell, then i saw your post and now i regret my vote..Nouw said:
Not beeing able to feel pain would be awesome..
Your post made me laugh, and this isn't the first time you've done it. You have me laugh four times now, keep it up and continue brightening my day you funny manHapexIndustries said:
I think I would lose either taste or smell.
Without taste I wouldn't be tempted to eat out of boredom and it would significantly reduce any future weight issues I may receive.
And as for smell, well I think the ratio to smells of farts and dog poop to smells of ANYTHING nice is pretty poor. I also personally don't like the smell of freshly cut grass, but I do love the scent of...petrol, don't judge it just smells nice! In all seriousness it would pose a threat if I released a deadly gas in a science class, or more likely I accidentally lit something on fire.
Either smell or taste, intertwined as they are. I'm a linguist, so I really need to see and hear in order to read and understand people, whilst without touch I'd be gone.
If we widen the field away from the Platonic senses, I'd say nociception... maybe.
If we widen the field away from the Platonic senses, I'd say nociception... maybe.
You people do realise that if you lose smell, you also lose taste, right? Try eating something while holding for your nose.
I go with touch because even though the things with that is great, I would not lose my smell since that kills taste, and I loooooooove tasting. Without taste my life would lose all meaning. However if the loss of smell didn't damage the tate at all, I'd go for that. I do not want to lose my hearing because I love music... also talking... also hearing cars... Not vision because that's the worst one to lose. Except that you get to walk around hitting people with a cane.