What is tactile information and what means of obtaining it exist? What is it for? What data can be obtained thanks to her? How can they be used?
general information
So, tactile information is data exchanged or received by living organisms using physical contacts. This is possible only at short distances. Speaking about what tactile information is, the following point should be noted: data transmission is observed in those species that have a public lifestyle. As a well-known example, bees can be cited. They have tactile information - this is information about places where plants bloom en masse. This information is passed on to other hive inhabitants through a dance language. True, there is another important aspect. As a rule, tactile information is a component of a whole communication complex, which is true even in the example with bees.
In animals
Let's look at the situation not with insects, but with vertebrates. So, speaking about the smelt breeding process, it should be noted that before the female spawns in the nests, the male carries out a series of shocks with his stigma, the purpose of which is to base its tail.
Chimpanzees use these physical contacts to encourage or calm other animals. Tactile information is also an opportunity to report the joy of a meeting after a long separation. It can also be part of the reconciliation process after an aggressive skirmish has arisen. If we talk about humanoid ones like chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys, then our smaller brothers have the most popular hugs, pats, hand touches and kisses. Also popular and specific are attempts to find something in the wool. These animals widely use a similar approach after prolonged separation. This is also a confirmation of the close friendship and partnership between them. Such habits can reduce the tension that exists between individual animals.
True, one cannot ignore the diversity of relationships. So, for example, there is aggressive tactile information. This is expressed in flip flops, bumps, bites and cracks. Such approaches are used, as a rule, to maintain order in humanoid communities.
And what about us?
Basically, the conversation was previously about lower animals. And what about the person? Let's look at this aspect. A person perceives (recognizes) tactile information by touching its source. The nature of our body provides that we feel it with our skin. The most common is recognizing the subject through touch. So, you can find out hardness, humidity, temperature and many other characteristics. But due to the fact that a person receives tactile information precisely by touching, there are certain risks. So, if you put your finger on a hot pan, you can burn it. And follow-up will be quite difficult. Now let's talk about assistive mechanisms.
Tactile imagination
Suppose a person is in a completely dark room. He needs to find a specific place where the bed is located in order to lie down and sleep. Initially, a person slowly moves his hands in accordance with the trajectory of his movement. As soon as he finds something, he begins to explore using his hands. A person cannot know what and where is in the room in which he is for the first time. Therefore, he has to use his imagination to imagine what will happen next and what forecasts should be hoped for. Thanks to this, he concludes that you can meet here most likely. Tactile media, which in this case are the fingers and their skin, allow you to get all the necessary data about the topography, location of the object and many other nuances.
Tactile memory
Imagination allows you to simulate the arrangement of things and objects. And his memory helps him a lot. We continue to consider the previously mentioned example with a person who is in a dark room and wants to find a bed to lie down and sleep. He was already in it and remembers what and where is located. Initially, a man reaches out in a desire to grope at least some kind of object. Suppose he gets on the cabinet door and, thanks to his memory, classifies the object he met. It also helps to “learn” other objects, which is why the ultimate goal - reaching the bed, will be successfully achieved.
Features
If you describe a person and the features of his tactile information, you can note many different interesting specific conditions and sensations. One of the most interesting is phantom pain. The peculiarity of this condition is that a person who does not have problems or injuries feels as if he has them. If we consider the problem from a physiological point of view, then everything is quite simple: some factor contributed to the fact that nerve cells and nodes began to transmit information about damage or a strong blow to the brain. As a rule, this is caused by fairly simple and primitive reasons such as lack of sleep, a sedentary way of life, or, conversely, critical overloads. Maybe the situation is a little more dangerous, for example, lack of vitamins. Be that as it may, you should try to normalize your daily routine and eat healthy food. If this does not help and phantom pains continue to appear, then it is advisable to consult a doctor in order to diagnose their causes. Thus, the tactile data we receive will allow us to find out about the problems that exist in the body and get by with "little blood."
Conclusion
The tactile information collected by our skin is only one of the senses with which a person navigates in space. But this is only part of a much more complex system.