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Sense8 (/ ˈ s ɛ n s eɪ t /) is an American science fiction drama television series created by Lana and Lilly Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski for Netflix.The production companies behind Sense8 included the Wachowskis' Anarchos Productions (replaced by Lana and her wife's Venus Castina Productions in the second season), Straczynski's Studio JMS, and Georgeville Television, with ...
A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli. Although, in some cultures, five human senses [1] were traditionally identified as such (namely sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing), many more are now recognized. [2]
Smell, or olfaction, is a chemoreception that forms the sense of smell. Olfaction has many purposes, such as the detection of hazards, pheromones, and food. It integrates with other senses to form the sense of flavor. [8] Olfaction occurs when odorants bind to specific sites on olfactory receptors located in the nasal cavity. [9]
Sense organs are transducers that convert data from the outer physical world to the realm of the mind where people interpret the information, creating their perception of the world around them. [ 1 ] The receptive field is the area of the body or environment to which a receptor organ and receptor cells respond.
The different senses were always thought to be controlled by separate lobes of the brain, [7] called projection areas.The lobes of the brain are the classifications that divide the brain both anatomically and functionally. [8]
The Eight Consciousnesses (Skt. aṣṭa vijñānakāyāḥ [1]) is a classification developed in the tradition of the Yogācāra school of Mahayana Buddhism.They enumerate the five sense consciousnesses, supplemented by the mental consciousness (manovijñāna), the defiled mental consciousness (kliṣṭamanovijñāna [2]), and finally the fundamental store-house consciousness ...
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Anora. Anora, the story of a New York City sex worker's whirlwind marriage to the aloof son of a Russian oligarch, is an awards juggernaut. The film has ...
The first season of Sense8, an American science fiction drama television series created by Lana and Lilly Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski, follows eight strangers from different parts of the world who suddenly discover that they are "sensates"; human beings who are mentally and emotionally linked.