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Special Episode: Ed Yong & An Immense World

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The Different Types of Sensations

The senses are just about taking information that exists in the world around us and drawing meaning from them. They could be electromagnetic radiation, like light. That's how we see. It could be waves of pressure moving through the air. That sound, it's what we hear. The textures that we feel. And then when you go into other animals, the number increases even more. In many ways, hearing and touch are actually kind of the same.

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