How many senses are possessed by a human?  1. Sight, 2.Smell, 3.Taste, 4.Touch, and 5.Hearing, Humans also have: 6. Absolute Musical Pitch Sensation, i.e., Perfect Pitch. (It’s rare but it’s a sense) 7. Balance (equilibrioception), 8.Pressure, 9.Temperature (thermoception) 10.Pain (nociception) 11.Pleasure, 12. Extreme Pleasure (Dopamine/VMAT2 sensors), 13. Acceleration 14. Proprioception is the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement. It is distinguished from:  15. Exteroception, by which we perceive the boundaries of the outside world, 16. Interoception, by which we perceive pain, hunger, etc., and the movement of internal organs, 17. Kinesthesia,  18. Synesthesia, in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another. For example, the hearing of a sound may result in the sensation of the visualization of a color, or a shape may be sensed as a smell. Synesthesia is hereditary and it is estimated that it occurs in 1 out of 1000 individuals with variations of type and intensity. The most common forms of synesthesia link numbers or letters with colors and 19. a sense of being poisoned which in turn causes nausea.

are neurologically linked to the brain.

• 20. Pulmonary stretch receptors are found in the lungs and control the respiratory rate.
• 21. Peripheral chemoreceptors in the brain monitor the carbon dioxide and oxygen levels in the brain to give a feeling of suffocation if carbon dioxide levels get too high.^[14]
• 22. The chemoreceptor trigger zone is an area of the medulla in the brain that receives inputs from blood-borne drugs or hormones, and communicates with the vomiting center.
• 23. Chemoreceptors in the circulatory system also measure salt levels and prompt thirst if they get too high (they can also respond to high sugar levels in diabetics^[15]).
• 24. Cutaneous receptors in the skin not only respond to touch, pressure, and temperature, but also respond to vasodilation in the skin such as blushing.
• 25. Stretch receptors in the gastrointestinal tract sense gas distension that may result in colic pain.
• 26. Stimulation of sensory receptors in the esophagus result in sensations felt in the throat when swallowing, vomiting, or during acid reflux.
• 27. Sensory receptors in pharynx mucosa, similar to touch receptors in the skin, sense foreign objects such as food that may result in a gag reflex and corresponding gagging sensation.
• 28. Stimulation of sensory receptors in the urinary bladder and rectum may result in sensations of fullness.
• 29. Stimulation of stretch sensors that sense dilation of various blood vessels may result in pain, for example headache caused by vasodilation of brain arteries.

But there is no Common Sense. There’s no sense of Manners, of Taste in clothes or designs, nor are there other senses although some people ascribe things like ESP to a so-called sixth sense. Many attributes which humans display are not from the body, i.e., from the senses but from the mind. The mind is a self-assembling mechanism according to Stephen Pinker, an honored Cognitive Neuro-Science researcher. The mind shapes itself and can regress, stagnate or improve itself.  

Noveau Beaujolais is a wine sold 6 to 8 weeks after the grapes are picked. George DuBoeuf devised a brilliant marketing idea that led to the practice of releasing the New Beaujolais in December.

This year the Noveau Beaujolais is spectacular but the government in Pennsylvania added 44% to the list price, thus forcing the citizens of PA to overpay for Noveau Beaujolais, It is $12.99 in PA and $8.99 in New Jersey. Goes to show how government makes everything more expensive and why the State Store system is bad for citizens.

Rumor has it an elected official became extremely upset; began f-blasting; got even more agitated; used even more despicable language; kept up the atrocious behavior; was asked by police, we believe off-duty, to leave; refused; became even more abusive using language that embarrassed every adult within earshot, language that I’ve never heard before and which embarrassed me when it was reported, and, which official was finally persuaded to leave and had to be helped outside by another elected official. We have names but because we believe in not mentioning names when the consequences of the report would be damaging and because we have respect for ourselves will not be the first to publish them. It’s being reported as a rumor. It’s based on reports from people who have credibility and we believe the incident happened just about the way it’s reported above. Of course it may be unfair to every official who was not involved but there is no alternative which reveals itself. The lack of knowledge about the personal life of an official who goes far over the line make it prudent to keep certain information to one’s self. 

It is unfortunate when we witness people who cannot control themselves. It’s even worse for people who are elected officials. They are held to a different standard, as they should be, because they have power because of their position and more responsibility. An incident like this embarrasses innocent bystanders who are swept into an incident through nothing more than they happen to be near the miscreant. The embarrassment is because even though people have accidents some bad behavior far exceeds the norm. Adults have a vast range of experiences that inures them to the unusual and to the abnormal but when the un-acceptable goes well past even the most flexible standard, we cringe inwardly. We hope this incident doesn’t happen again although word of mouth indicates it’s happened before and more than once.   Developing…

Courage is regarded as a higher virtue because it requires an ability to face danger while thinking. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had courage along with valor, two attributes that are regarded as heroic. Cowardice is regarded as the lack of  courage and a higher than normal amount of fear but there are degrees of cowardice. The lowest form is a coward who lacks self-esteem. Even cowards seem to have a sense of who they are and know they have some value so they stay in the world with others. Some however lack any idea of what they are so they refuse to reveal themselves. They are psychotic. because their fears rule their lack of judgment. In the military cowards are summarily dispatched I suppose on the good riddence theory.

Unable to face life as ordinary people their fright directs their actions. Metaphorically they slither along the botton recesses of life.