All living beings, including humans, evolved to live in changing external environments and interact with them. Sensory reception, which consists of five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, is a complete system that enables one to survive effectively (Pfaffmann, 2017). Pain is usually attributed to touch, as it is the same somatosensory system, enabling one to recognize such characteristics as size, shape, the temperature of a surface of an object, and others. Therefore, humans have a set of valuable senses which complement each other.
Although all the body’s senses are equally important, there is one, I believe, it is most difficult to live without. Pain is the primary warning signal, which indicates that something is wrong with the body. Without this sense, it would not be possible to determine if an object is dangerous and take measures to prevent harming the body. People that do not feel pain are rare, which is partially an indicator that it is the most difficult to survive with such a condition.
Vision is vital, as most parts of the information people collect with the help of their eyes. However, if someone is blind, they utilize other senses to obtain the lacking details and successfully survive, frequently even without someone’s assistance. If a person cannot hear, there are still other methods to collect information. Moreover, in most cases, contemporary medicine can help a patient with such a diagnosis. However, it is not possible to replace pain with any other sense, as they do not fulfill the warning function as this sense does. Vision and hearing sometimes can indicate the potentially harmful factor, but without pain, people would not even have the initial information to recognize danger. Therefore, it is most difficult to live without pain.
References
Pfaffmann, C. (2017). Human sensory reception. Encyclopedia Britannica. Web.