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Well, if there was no sound to hear and EM waves to see, evolution wouldn't have given us eyes and ears in the first place. So thinking about it from that angle, there are probably energies out there that we simply can't sense because there is no contrast to them... it's a flatline so to speak. We simply wouldn't evolve anything to sense a flatline that never changes. It surely wouldn't benefit the survival of any organism; only something that has variation is of importance. Then, it is probably debatable whether or not unvarying energies even exist...

I think there are definatly senses we posess that, at least, don't have a lablel stuck on them like seeing or hearing. Take instinct for example, it's quite possible that I'm using some 6th sence when I make decisions soley based on my own 'intuition', it just isn't recognized as comparable to seeing or hearing. This is not to say that it isn't just like seeing or hearing.
I am sure there are hundreds of unknown 'senses' like this that exist. That would account for a percentage of the many unexplainable occurances that happen regularly in the world. (Do you follow that?...)



This is all under the assumption that evolution gave us eyes and ears in the first place. Is that the case or have they always existed on a human body? I suppose we have know way of knowing for sure.

First of all, I feel inclined to point out that silence and darkness are not tangible things but the lack of tangible things. Silence isn't there, darkness isn't there; silence and darkness are the state in which their contrasting elements (sound and light consecutively) are not there. As someone else said, without sound, we wouldn't have developed ears to pick up on it. Without light we wouldn't have developed eyes. Sound and light are two forms of energy that are central to the way species evolved and developed -- mammals, at least. Without them, we wouldn't have developed aparatus capable of detecting and/or making sense of them, and therefore we would have developed in totally different ways. Perhaps we would not exist at all, without sound or light.

BUT, if you look at it from the point of view of an individual... stick a baby in a dark, sound-proof room, for example, it is plausible to assume that the baby would grow up, and as a child, adolescent, and adult, would have no concept of either light or dark, sound or silence. We do not know what we have not sensed. We can't imagine something existing if we've never experienced something like it before.

So yes, it is feasible that we might have senses we don't know about because we've never had to use them, hone them, or grow strong with them. Just as that perfectly healthy baby can't imagine seeing or hearing, and lives as if deaf and blind, because he doesn't know any different, maybe there are things we can't fathom because we've never had to fathom them before.

The flipside of that coin is, though, that since (as a species) we haven't had any reason to attune to these senses, we may not actually have them. There may be levels of reality that we can't sense because we don't need to, and therefore we didn't develop the aparatus to sense them, so even if they were right under our noses, so to speak, we'd still have no clue of their existence.

Yes they are.

"Heya bitches, light doesn't exist. It is simply an absense of dark. Yeah, and sounds doesn't exist either, it's just the absense of silence."

They both exist, they are both incompatable, but that's no reason to say that one of them doesn't exist. That they aren't there.

Minus the fact that metaphysical ideas don't fall into the category of being proven or disproven, sure, why not?

It's the same concept used to explain the composition of colors to art students- black is the absense of color, while white is all colors because white light can be seperated out into all the different colors of the spectrum using crystals and black light doesn't exist (barring the halloween decorations...).


Very Harry Potterish- neither one can live while the other survives!