I was wondering if anyone knows how the 5+ sense that we experience in our physical reality got chosen upon? For instance, how was it decided upon that physical creatures would have eyeballs to see; ears to hear; fingers/toes to feel; a tongue to taste; a nose to smell? Are these 5+ senses the most essential important senses needed for us to gain growth in a spiritual sense? Or were they just haphazardly tossed into our mix for evolutionary sake?

Curious probing,

PUL,
Cosmic_Ambitions

LOL, Chuckles,
you make sense  in the strangest ways!
My thoughts were more pedestrian. I thought it had to do with matter being so solid down here. You don't want to run into it,  you want to know if it's good to eat, etc.
Or less on the practical,  if Love is the answer, then we're here to love, so you want to experience what you love as fully as possible, whether it's a flower, a pearl, or a person. Senses are probes to help us know about this material world directly.
When we incarnate on other centers we'll not need 5, I suppose. If surrounded by gases, we'll be an adaptation of just a nose, maybe like a jet  , gas in, gas out. If only fluids, we'll have to add one sense, a strainer/gills, to sense the thickness and contents of the fluid. --- Does anyone know a comic book publisher where I could apply?