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Even if we lose orientation horizontally, we still have a good sense of top and bottom. We have developed a gravity compass in our body: the vestibular system. It's hard to imagine being vertically disoriented with no sense of up and down. The vestibular system isn't counted as part of the senses, we only declared six of them as we don't give much attention to things that consistently work well and have not much variation in how they work. Our bodies have evolved and adapted to our environments, and we're free to "not think" of most processes to work. Just imagine you'd have to think which muscle to contract now for digesting. I'm glad the body works unconsciously, taking care of itself, so i can think about more interesting things than which proteins to read off my genes right now or which bacteria is friendly and which is an enemy. Although it would be great to know how all that works (while it works without knowing how it works), it would be too much to clutter up one's conscious mind. There are different forms of "knowing": the body knows how to work without the brain consciously knowing how. A conscious thanks to unconsciousness. So in this context giving a new spin to Hegel who meant it a little differently: "The known, just because it is known, is the unknown." Hegel

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