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Contents 1 What are Sensory Systems? 2 Forms of Information in Energy 3 Forms of Adaptation to Extract this Information 4 See Also

[edit] What are Sensory Systems?

[I'm trying to situate sensory systems within the broader context of systems in general. This means more than just the physiological aspects of these systems but the environmental context as well}

Sensory Systems are systems comprised of information carried through energy exchanges that allow embodied beings to perform actions in their environment. Both biological and artificial organisms participate in interaction with their environment utilizing multiple sensory systems. Biological organisms' actions that are enabled through sensory systems include foraging, habitat selection, reproduction, and defense.

[edit] Forms of Information in Energy

1. Chemical Information
   1. Chemoreception
   2. Smell
   3. Taste
2. Electromagnetic Information
   1. Electroreception
   2. Magnetoception
   3. Visual Perception Photoreception
   4. Polarized light
   5. Thermoreception
   6. Infrared sensing in snakes
   7. Thermoception
3. Vibratory Information
   1. Hearing (sense)
   2. Echolocation
   3. Pressure Lateral line
4. Gravitational Information
   1. Equilibrioception
   2. Mechanoreception
5. Embodied Information
   1. Nociception
   2. Proprioception
   3. Touch

[edit] Forms of Adaptation to Extract this Information

everything from simple eyes to echolocation

[edit] See Also

• Embodiment
• Sensory Systems
• Senses
• Perception
• Philosophy of Perception
• Merleau-Ponty