Read your link more closely, my friend, those are different types of receptor. Even more so, as you look at the operation thereof.
I apologies, I quoted the wrong link. I meant to link this:
Cutaneous mechanoreceptors.
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Cutaneous mechanoreceptors provide the senses of touch, pressure, vibration, proprioception and others.
A system is not sense; a sense is a sense. Yes, there are commonalities in how differing sense are conveyed but they do, none-the-less, carry differing information.
Fair enough, but I was just trying to show that the senses: touch, temperature, proprioception, and nociception are part of the same sensory system.
Balance was a misnomer, none-the-less the information conveyed by the vestibular organs stand seperate from other senses.
I don't think I follow.
The vestibular sense is the same as equilibrioception, or the sense of balance. It would not function properly without the other senses.
I agree that they stand seperately, but if it can't function properly without the other senses I believe this makes it a secondary branch of the original senses. I think...?
You do not see the world as it is directly conveyed by your eyes but as it is reconstructed by your brain. You do not hear speech as conveyed by the systems in your ear (which, btw, are very cool - they're effectively performing a biological Fourier transform) but as post-processed by your brain to identify sounds relevant to the language you know.
But the senses are independent of the brain. Our brain receives the information and makes a representation of reality based on the info it got from its sensory inputs. IMO this is not the same as saying vision is required for balance. The brain compiles all the info and processes it, but that is secondary to the actual, initial sensing of what we interacted with.
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