What is a hyper-body system?
Connecting three or more of the five basic senses would be considered hyper-body. We connect senses and materials by enhancing these senses or substituting them. The basic human senses are considered to be touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. Our body senses these and sends information to our brain to process the messages to help us perceive the world around us. Some sources consider some additional senses to be spatial awareness (proprioception and body awareness) and balance (equilibrioception) because we also couldn’t live without them. You may see these terms referred to slightly differently, such as the vestibular sense or movement. Acceleration, time, pain, temperature, and kinesthetic senses are also sometimes discussed. Humans are complicated systems!
Touch is considered important not only for survival, for example, knowing to not get burned by fire, but also for communication. Compassion from others that we can sense through touch...
