ah, quite so, i should have said "at least" seven basic senses, as i quite believe in additional senses myself.
as far as the debates go, the sense of touch is considered to include temperature sensitivity already. this is because touch is nothing but the sense of the electron fields interacting and repulsing between the outer surfaces of two objects. how strongly they interact is interpreted as pressure, heat, cold, and certain kinds of pain.
temporal sense is an illusion as time itself is an illusion. the sense of time is actually nothing more than spatial motion.
if you add up the Rotational and Orbital Velocity of the planet, add the ROV of the solar system, add the galaxy's, add our local cluster's, account for the deflection of all the nearby galaxies causing them all to veer towards the assumed super-gravitational anomaly outside the reach of our telescopes - in short, add up all the velocities and vectors that we are being subjected to on a second to second basis, you get a total velocity that is a wee bit short of the speed of light. The leftover amount we are short of is our perception of time. dilation, in other words.
to put it in simple terms, our sense of time is basically us sticking our heads out of the window of our planet and feeling the passage of the warp and woof of space like wind on the face.
one sense that few list as such is the sense of observation. one we share with individual atoms. or maybe it is because we are made of atoms that we have such a sense... of course, that doesn't explain how an atomic level sense and origin of information is transmitted such that we gain conscious awareness of it.....
proprioception is a fun one. explains why so many pre-teens and teens are clumsy.
consciousness, eh? maybe i should leave that one alone for now, given what i've already said. ^^
