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Chapter 2
Communication through
Many Senses
ABSTRACT
Sensory messages are examined as electromagnetic waves clearly identified by our senses, consisting
of interacting electric and magnetic currents or fields and having distinctive wavelengths, energy, and
frequency. Further text discusses modes of gathering information and communication that include sen-
sory responses to electromagnetic waves, visible vibrations exemplified by cymatics, the pitch response,
the senses of vision, smell, touch, and taste, all of them further expanded by the developments in cur-
rent technologies. The sense of numbers is examined next, involving numerical and verbal cognition
and communication with the use of numerals. Sensitivity, spatial abilities, and the threshold of sensory
information make a part of the issues about biology-inspired computational solutions for enhancing
our particular or synesthetic abilities, and the role of imagination in biology-inspired research and
technology, learning, and teaching. The role of the sensory input in art, which pertains in some extent
to individual curiosity and sensibility, concludes the chapter.
INTRODUCTION
communicate ideas and information, even if it goes
in a language shared by both parts. Moreover, our
communication with the world and people, con-
scious and unaware of, goes through our senses
in much more ways than only by sight, hearing,
touch and haptic experience, smell, or taste. For
these reasons, the issues discussed in this chapter
It may be useful to keep in mind that communica-
tion with others, as well as exchange of knowledge,
insight, and information can be done both in verbal
and non-verbal way. Many agree that a written
text alone may not be the most effective way to
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4703-9.ch002
