The five senses are creative things that God made for us to enjoy things around us. He gave them also to identify certain situations. The senses can develop our personalities and what we like and dislike. Without senses we would not be able to see, hear, taste, smell, or touch.
The sense of taste is a complicated sense. In order to taste, you must be able to smell as well (Baucum 106). However, the tongue is the primary site of taste. There are over 10,000 taste buds and each taste bud has 20 receptors that sense the chemicals in food. Food must be dissolved in saliva before the taste buds are able to detect those chemicals. Taste is made up of more than just the chemicals, though. Temperature, consistency, and texture all make up parts of identifying a taste. In reality, the tongue only detects sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. The combinations of those all make the different unique tastes that you identify with certain foods (Baucum 106).
The sense of touch is a very important addition to the creation of our bodies. There are four types of "stimulation:" pressure, cold, warm, and pain. The skin has 2 layers: the epidermis and the dermis. The epidermis is what you see when you look at your body. In the dermis are many receptors that send messages to the brain about what stimulations you are experiencing at any given time (Baucum 108). Without the sense of touch, we would not be able to identify when something was harming us. Pain receptors are very important to survival. Without them we would be unable to stop ourselves from doing whatever it is that was hurting us.
In conclusion, the senses of touch and taste are very important. If you imagine life without them, you can see how different we would have to live! Thank God for the five senses!
Baucum, Don, and Carolyn D. Smith. Kagan and Segal's Psychology: An Introduction. 9th. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cenage Learning, 2004. 105, 106, 108. Print
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