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34: The Replication Crisis, Human Senses, and Pride Flags

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Senses and Sensory Nerve Endings

How sensitive you are to touching different areas of your body just depends on the concentration of the neurons with those receptors in that area. You're like fingertips, for example, have like all your hands have such a huge concentration of these receptors. If I was high right now, compared to some I like your upper arm, where you have like maybe one every, you know, a couple of centimeters kind of thing. So that affects the way you feel. Oh, itch is also a specific touch receptor. Yeah. That checks out. Wow.

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