I fully agree with your thoughts and concerns. You point out that there are many more dimensions to the area of “senses” than I ventured into, some that I hadn’t considered at all, and each worthy of their own deep discourse. There are physical (mechanical, electrical, chemical), societal, and philosophical aspects that all have implications, some trivial and some profound, for man and machine alike. I think one could make it a life’s work and still there would be aspects left unexplored for lack of time or resources!

Thank you for bringing up the list of senses beyond the five classic ones that I addressed, although a couple I might put into a different category assuming a ‘sense’ is a fundamental interface to one’s environment (for lack of a better description). Ego, language and conceptual, for example, to me seem more like computational (again, probably not the best word here) results than stimulus based entities. I’m ‘thinking out loud’ (or free writing as some would call it) here, so no doubt there are better ways of expressing these ideas! I hope it makes sense to you :) As you may have gathered, I do enjoy these explorations into areas not often considered!