Also refer to detectors, sensors, vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste, electric waves, magnetic waves, gravity, physiology, psychic power, 6th sense, animals, insects, School for Champions, Kurtus Technologies, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The way we determine what is in the world around us is by detecting and processing different signals or forms of energy through our senses.
Humans seem to be able to sense at least eight forms of energy.
What is sensed in each is limited to a narrow bandwidth. The human senses also require a sufficient amount of energy to work properly. Let us take a look at how we sense the world around us. There is a mini-quiz at the end of this lesson. Sensing different forms of energy Most textbooks say that humans have only 5 senses.