Design Concepts: Interoception Is a Match for Proprioception

Andrew McDiarmid, David Coppedge, eBioMedicine, Fiona MacDonald, health, human body, ID The Future, information, Intelligent Design, interoception, Medicine, mental health, Nils Kroemer, proprioception, Science and Culture Today, ScienceAlert, self-monitoring, Senses, sixth sense, The Conversation, University of Tübingen, Well-being
The take-home point is surely this: Our bodies have all sorts of ways of giving us information that do not run through our senses. Source
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Research Reveals Elephant’s Amazing Sense of Touch

amplitude, Andrew Schultz, Asian elephants, biology, cats, curb feelers, Engineering, finite element analysis, frequency, Intelligent Design, interoception, Katherine Kuchenbecker, Marc S. Lavine, material intelligence, materials, Max Planck Institute, mechanosensors, medical devices, Merkel cells, neuroscience, peanut, potato chip, power, rat whiskers, rats, rodents, Science (journal), sensory neurons, stiffness gradient, vibrotactile signals, whisker breakage, whisker hairs, zoology
Elephants can turn over a jeep and pull down a tree, but they can also pick up a potato chip without breaking it. Source
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