Psychology Today | 20.05.2026 02:13
Traditionally, humans are said to have five senses: vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. But what if there is a sixth sense? Although extrasensory perception (ESP) is often proffered as the sixth sense, the actual consistent empirical evidence is so weak or non-existent as to make that supposition highly questionable. However, what if a sixth sense lies not in ESP or some mystical perception, but in something far more fundamental and demonstrable: humans’ innate sense of numbers?