IMO we do not describe them as all just being touch as:
1) Saying they all are touch doesn't help differentiate the different senses and how they work.
2) It's a bit too low level.
This is similar to saying there is no need for the separate disciplines of biology & chemistry because it's all just physics after all. So we might as well dump those subjects completely.
Imagine being introduced to science at school but there is only one subject, physics, so you only "eventually" learn chemistry & biology through the lens of their physical atomic interactions.
Imagine trying to describe a cell through the frame of atomic interactions and no higher level abstractions allowed.
All science being physics is far less useful than being able to step over the base level going's on and make higher level abstractions so that you work at the appropriate "topology/focus/subdivision" level for the scientific discipline in question.
Anyways that's what I thought of when considering all senses are touch, it's just a bit too low level and ambiguous to be useful.
All of our senses involve some form of matter/energy touching us.
- Photons touching our retina cells...
- Molecules touching our taste buds...
- Air molecules touching our ear hairs...
- Some amount of matter or electromagnetic energy touching our skin...
- Molecules touching our olfactory sensory neurons...
IMO we do not describe them as all just being touch as:
1) Saying they all are touch doesn't help differentiate the different senses and how they work.
2) It's a bit too low level.
This is similar to saying there is no need for the separate disciplines of biology & chemistry because it's all just physics after all. So we might as well dump those subjects completely.
Imagine being introduced to science at school but there is only one subject, physics, so you only "eventually" learn chemistry & biology through the lens of their physical atomic interactions.
Imagine trying to describe a cell through the frame of atomic interactions and no higher level abstractions allowed.
All science being physics is far less useful than being able to step over the base level going's on and make higher level abstractions so that you work at the appropriate "topology/focus/subdivision" level for the scientific discipline in question.
Anyways that's what I thought of when considering all senses are touch, it's just a bit too low level and ambiguous to be useful.