8-2 Discussion: Special Senses
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Which of the five special senses do you think is the most important? What is the rationale for your choice? When explaining your reasoning, describe the importance of the special sense.
When responding to your classmates, choose classmates who have chosen different special senses as the most important and try to convince them why another sense could be seen as more important.
To complete this assignment, review the Discussion Rubric document.
DB Week 8
Ryan Yung posted Dec 18, 2018 1:06 PM
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Hey Class,
Personally I feel like the sense of sight is the most important. The reason being, it seems like without sight a person would have the most difficult time navigating the world and living. If you lost all of your senses except sight, I feel like you could overcome a number of the complications presented by the other missing senses. But, without sight, perhaps if you could only hear, you would have a much more difficult time. While living life without your equilibrium or sense of touch or hearing would be difficult, they can all be overcome to some degree if you have the ability to see. A person can be wheelchair bound because they can’t balance themselves, but if they can see they are much better off. However, a blind person with no sense of touch, smell, or equilibrium, only the ability to hear, is going to have a much harder life. I feel like if you were to lose only 1 sense, sight might not be the worst thing to lose, but if you were to keep only 1 sense, sight would be the most important. Vision and sight participate in a substantial amount of how we physically survive in the world.
Thanks for reading,
-Ryan
8-2 discussion
Holly Andreasen posted Dec 17, 2018 9:18 AM
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I personally believe strongly that our sense of sound or hearing is our most important sense. Without sound we would not have speach, which would make it difficult to communicate. You do not need taste in order to eat and keep your body healthy with good nutrition. While smelling things is nice, it is also not a sense required to live.
When you are trying to get around in the dark and you do not have access to any light you have to rely on your sense of sound to direct you.
In reality, to live life it is beneficial to have all the special senses in tact. When I lost my hearing in my right ear 5 years ago, I realized how important it is to have this sense. My 5 year old daughter likes to whisper things in my ear and it breaks my heart when she whispers in the wrong ear. I can’t imagine losing my hearing in both ears and never hearing her or her sisters sweet voices ever again. As a mother I think both sight and hearing are equally important. I not only want to see my children grow up but I also want to be able to always communicate and hear them and the way their voices change as they grow older. What do you believe is the most important part about our sense of sound?
