Highest Rated Comments


glaughtalk6 karma

That lame-brain freeway idea could only be cooked up by a toon.

glaughtalk1 karma

How has the EU changed the city of Brussels? What will be the ultimate fate of Brussels?

glaughtalk1 karma

How has the origin of the hair cell characterized its later evolution? Hearing is a lot like touch, isn't it? The inner ear is a roll of skin covered in gelatinous whiskers immersed in fluid. Sound surrounds the cell and physically perturbs it, and the sensation feels like being enveloped by the material producing the sound. Even sight can feel like extending a finger. Sharp objects and dirtiness are unpleasant to see or hear.

One thing about touch is that there are separate systems for pain, pressure, heat and more, so do sight and touch have separations within them between painful stimuli and other categories, or do these senses trigger pain by imagining what it would feel like to touch what they are seeing or hearing?