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taste receptors, propiosensors, and intuition oh my!
I'm starting to think that for the most part, brain = behavior. Activity in the smallest boxes (the neurons) affect the bigger boxes and overall affect our behavior. Receptors in our bodies allow us to process information from the environment and then allow the brain to respond accordingly (or ignore the inputs overall from time to time). However it's interesting to see how our reality is limited. Sure we can see, touch, smell, taste, and hear but we lack receptors to sense gravity and magnetic fields. People mentioned stories of animals who have a sense of knowing when people are about to die; I've heard that animals in the wild are more in tune with nature than we are so they can predict when the weather is going to turn into chaos. It makes me wonder what else we are missing out on; what else is going on in the world that we are not completely aware of? Is it possible to find a satisfactory answer?
The idea of multiple receptors from intuition to propiosensors is pretty fascinating. Propiosensors make sense but where is the box for intuition? Where are the intuition receptors? Do neurons process information from intuition receptors in the same way as they do from other receptors?