To sate the curiousity of anyone uninclined to look for information themselves, other senses include:
- Equilibrioception, via the inner ear, providing sensation of angular momentum and acceleration
- Proprioception, feedback on the movement and position of the body. This is why you can close your eyes and touch your fingertips together.
- Various internal signals, such as hunger
- Pain, a distinct sensation that can be caused by various conditions
- What is commonly regarded as the sense of "touch" can be separated into multiple distinct types, including heat, cold, and pressure.
For a demonstration of the difference between heat and cold sensation, place small amounts of the chemicals menthol (from peppermint extract) and capsaicin (from chili peppers) in your mouth--the former triggers cold receptors, while the latter triggers heat (and pain) receptors.
As an aside, there are also five distinct sensations of flavor, not the four that were commonly accepted until recently.
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To make the distinction clear, if "weak atheism" aka "negative atheism" is lack of belief in God, and strong atheism is belief in lack of God, then:
Weak Untheism would be having never heard of God, but having already invented such epistemic rules that, faced with the proposition of God / religion, you will fail to accept it.
Strong Untheism would be having never heard of God, but having already developed epistemic rules of sufficient strength that, first faced with the proposition of God / religion, you will pass definite negative judgment on it.
To echo scientists who say that something is "Not Even Wrong" if its untestable and/or non-scientific to the point of being incomprehensible, my position on the whole religion question is one that I tend to call Ignosticism in which I say that religions definitions of God are so self-contradictory that I don't even know what they mean by God.
Generally, when some asks if I believe in God, I tell them to define it. When they ask me why, I ask them if they believe in Frub. If so, why? If not, why? Without me giving them a definition, how can they possibly give a rational answer.