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You were taught you have five senses. You don't. Neuroscience now recognizes at least twelve distinct sensory systems, and the ones Aristotle missed are the ones quietly running your emotional life, your decisions, and your sense of who you are.
In this conversation, Phil Dixon and Cole Bastian take apart the five-sense model and rebuild it with what the research actually shows. You'll learn why "touch" isn't one sense, why your gut feelings are sensory data, and why interoception, the sense of your own internal state, is the foundation of emotional intelligence and good judgment.
Covered in this episode:
- The history of the five-sense model from Aristotle's De Anima to modern neuroscience
- Charles Bell and Charles Sherrington on the discovery of proprioception
- The vestibular system, thermoception, and nociception explained
- Why interoception is the neurological foundation of emotion, drawing on Lisa Feldman Barrett's constructed emotion theory
- Antonio Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis and what it means for decision-making
- C tactile afferents, the receptors tuned specifically to caring touch
- Wilder Penfield's cortical homunculus and what your brain's body map really looks like
- Chronoception, magnetoreception, and the edges of human sensing
- How interoceptive awareness connects to the Personal Threat Profile (PTP)
- Practical ways to train interoception for better self-regulation and leadership
Follow @mybrainwisecoach across all platforms and leave a five-star rating and review wherever you listen. It helps the BrainWise community grow.
00:00 The Sense You Were Never Taught
00:02 Aristotle and the Five-Sense Model
00:03 Charles Bell Discovers Proprioception
00:06 The Vestibular System and Balance
00:08 Thermoception and Temperature Sensing
00:09 Nociception Is Not Just Touch
00:11 Interoception and the Body's Internal State
00:13 Lisa Feldman Barrett on Constructed Emotion
00:14 Connecting Interoception to the PTP
00:15 Chronoception and the Sense of Time
00:17 Magnetoreception and Speculative Senses
00:18 Why Touch Is Not One Sense
00:19 C Tactile Afferents and Caring Touch
00:20 The Cortical Homunculus Body Map
00:22 Damasio's Somatic Marker Hypothesis
00:25 How to Train Interoceptive Awareness
00:26 Closing the BrainWise Field Guide
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By My BrainWise CoachYou were taught you have five senses. You don't. Neuroscience now recognizes at least twelve distinct sensory systems, and the ones Aristotle missed are the ones quietly running your emotional life, your decisions, and your sense of who you are.
In this conversation, Phil Dixon and Cole Bastian take apart the five-sense model and rebuild it with what the research actually shows. You'll learn why "touch" isn't one sense, why your gut feelings are sensory data, and why interoception, the sense of your own internal state, is the foundation of emotional intelligence and good judgment.
Covered in this episode:
- The history of the five-sense model from Aristotle's De Anima to modern neuroscience
- Charles Bell and Charles Sherrington on the discovery of proprioception
- The vestibular system, thermoception, and nociception explained
- Why interoception is the neurological foundation of emotion, drawing on Lisa Feldman Barrett's constructed emotion theory
- Antonio Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis and what it means for decision-making
- C tactile afferents, the receptors tuned specifically to caring touch
- Wilder Penfield's cortical homunculus and what your brain's body map really looks like
- Chronoception, magnetoreception, and the edges of human sensing
- How interoceptive awareness connects to the Personal Threat Profile (PTP)
- Practical ways to train interoception for better self-regulation and leadership
Follow @mybrainwisecoach across all platforms and leave a five-star rating and review wherever you listen. It helps the BrainWise community grow.
00:00 The Sense You Were Never Taught
00:02 Aristotle and the Five-Sense Model
00:03 Charles Bell Discovers Proprioception
00:06 The Vestibular System and Balance
00:08 Thermoception and Temperature Sensing
00:09 Nociception Is Not Just Touch
00:11 Interoception and the Body's Internal State
00:13 Lisa Feldman Barrett on Constructed Emotion
00:14 Connecting Interoception to the PTP
00:15 Chronoception and the Sense of Time
00:17 Magnetoreception and Speculative Senses
00:18 Why Touch Is Not One Sense
00:19 C Tactile Afferents and Caring Touch
00:20 The Cortical Homunculus Body Map
00:22 Damasio's Somatic Marker Hypothesis
00:25 How to Train Interoceptive Awareness
00:26 Closing the BrainWise Field Guide