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this annoyed me, you mean like how when you touch soemthing the nerves in your fingers send impuses to your brain which are interprited by touch. You can't feel the fluid in your ear as you can in touch, you only feel it's affects. Ballence is by all defernitions of the word a sense
I don't mean to attack you, but I would say that balance is in fact a derivative of touch. We have nerves, hairs etc on our skin which "feel" things that they touch, or that touch them. Little impulses get sent to our brain which knows to interpret them as soft, hard, smooth, rough etc. Within our ears, hairs and nerves use touch to determine where the fluid in our ears is lying. except, the brain knows that this is to be interpreted as upside down, on our side etc
To me, balance and a feeling of how we are being affected by gravity is not a sense in its own right. Rather, it is an evolved form of touch
turtle
P.S. From my experience, the members on this site, while being extremely open minded, will not simply accept any claim they come across - they're simply too curious. Don't take questioning offensively, it's just a sign that there are interested people on the site who want to know a bit more about you. Note that no-one said that you were lying, just that they wanted to know more. The only people that have any reason to worry are those that are deliberatly lying to goad members. I suspect that the new mods will have little tolerance xxxx