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Do We Have More than Five Senses?
Intelligence Squared
Is There a Glitter in the Matrix?
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There just does seem to be some kind of glitch in the matrix there, I think. It's something like 20% of people that really can't tolerate certain sounds. There is a reasonably high proportion of the population who are what's known as a mesophonics. And so we've been made aware by sound of essentially a mechanism which might potentially spread disease. When we hear somebody chewing, where, you know, it potentially brings in sort of self-defense and our desire to separate ourselves from a potential source of disease.
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