Emotional, Sensational, Fantastical!

[drewbear]

Tangential to a recent post of ginmar, I started thinking about the various physical senses and "core" emotions. By "core" emotions, I mean the "pure" biological emotions which combine to form all emotional states, like the primary colors combine to form all the others. So. Here's my lists.

Emotions:

• Joy
  
• Sorrow
  
• Fear
  
• Anger
  
• Disgust
  
• Surprise
  
• Desire

Physical Senses:

• Vision: the sense of sight, detection of electromagnetic radiation
  
• Audition: the sense of hearing, detection of transmited pressure waves
  
• Olfaction: the sense of smell, detection of airborne chemicals
  
• Gustation: the sense of taste, oral detection of solid or liquid chemicals
  
• Tactition: the sense of touch, detection of applied pressure
  
• Nociception: the sense of pain, detection of damage to the body
  
• Thermoception: the sense of temperature
  
• Equilibrioception: the sense of balance
  
• Proprioception: the sense of body awareness, detection of the position and movement of body parts in relation to each other
  
• Pruritus: the sense of itch, detection of irritants
  
• In addition, hunger and thirst may or may not be considered independent senses, based on the scientist.

Interestingly, although most people only think of the first five when thinking of "senses", they will generally agree with the presence of the others once the senses are identified or described.

Your thoughts?