In almost every muscle of your body, there's a special receptor called pieso too. The discovery of this actually won the most recent nobel prize. When a mechanical force pressing on your skin or a stretch is in the presence of this pieso receptor, that receptor opens and starts the signal. These women whom i met who lack the piazzo receptor, they can't feel a lot of light touch. We don't know how sharp pain enters our bodies. Wio, those kinds of touch are different.
Why stop at five senses? Just how much of the world can we perceive? And how much is out there that’s still out of reach, hiding in the dark?
This is the sixth and final episode of our six-part series, Making Sense.
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