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Beyond the 5th Sense

The way our bodies can take information from the outside world and produce signals in the nervous system helps to understand more about the way our bodies work in conjunction with the I-function. The way action potentials, receptor potentials, etc. all require this idea of membrane permeability is so intriguing. Although what the membrane is permeable to may change depending on situation, the way the basic idea occurs in all the different areas is nice.

The post 5th sense channels we posses that do not channel through the I-function are the most interesting to me. The idea that many things occur that we are not aware of wasn't exactly new to me (e.g. Halo Effect) but now that I am starting to understand why this happens, makes the idea even more interesting and believable, they are slowly being moved out of the unexplainable category and into the accepted.

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