- Sight is perhaps the most vital sense as it allows you to function in the environment around you. Losing it would be detrimental. - Sound is also important. It's a daily part of our lives, vital to human communication, and allows us to enjoy music. - Touch is responsible for us feeling pleasure, including sexual pleasure. I personally couldn't live without touch. - Smell is also useful for being able to identify the environment around you and to remember it. Losing it would affect the way we interact in the world. - Taste is probably the least important, even though it functions in making eating one of my favorite hobbies. Overall, I'd pick to lose taste. I could handle losing my ability to enjoy eating so I could still take advantage of the other senses. NOTE: I know Smell and Taste are linked, but for the sake of this poll, lets pretend that they're not.
Sight. All my other senses would be heightened and I would move to hells kitchen new york city and fight crime.
You wouldn't enjoy that beer as much as you think if you couldn't smell it. Taste depends on smell to a large degree. http://science-mattersblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-much-does-taste-depend-upon-smell.html
Ahhhh! This post helps me understand where your head is at when you are making all your other fanciful posts.
Taste would be the easiest for me to give up. I dislike too many foods, like fish, so this way I wouldn't have to be so picky. ;P
If you are tempted to reply, "taste", think again! A friend of mine lost his sense of taste after a surgery and the result has been devastating on him. He says that the enjoyment of food is the one great pleasure that everyone takes so for granted that they think they wouldn't miss it if it were gone because you could still chew and swallow the food. Yes, he says, you could survive, but a great deal of the enjoyment of life would be gone.
That's an easy one...smell. My father lost his sense of smell in a skydiving accident and it hasn't affected his quality of life very much. My order from least vital to most would look like this: 1. Smell 2. Taste 3. Hearing 4. Sight 5. Touch
This is the easiest question. I would pick smell for sure. Seriously how many people actually smell stuff? Heck I don't even think I smell anything right now!
Smell would definitely be the easiest one for me to tolerate losing, I should think. - - - Updated - - - Indeed, smell seems to be something that hasn't been strongly selected for amongst humans for quite a long time. It's not important to us the way it is to cats, dogs and other such critters.
I lost my sense of taste between 6 months to a year due to a dental procedure it wasn't an enjoyable experience...if you lose your sense of taste you can also lose your ability to salivate, your mouth is constantly dry requiring you to sip water constantly... you're correct smell is connected to taste but if given the choice I'd give up smell before taste, the other senses are too important to consider...
we use smell more than we realize without knowing it...studies done indicate women are still influenced by their sense of smell in selecting a mate...
True, I think I've heard of that before. On the whole, though, our sense of smell is relatively weak and useless.
I wouldn't say useless but definitely the one to give up if there was choice...but I still want my nose!...
As I have a hearing loss problem, somewhat corrected by hearing aids, I chose hearing, but I really can not imagine not being able to hear at all. Actually smell would be the easiest to give up in its entirety.
For me, it would be my sense of smell. I mean, I think I could do without it more easily than I could do without the other senses.
