Beyond the Five Senses

Beyond the Five Senses

Telepathy, echolocation, and the future of perception

The world we experience is not the real world. It’s a mental construction, filtered through our physical senses. Which raises the question: How would our world change if we had new and different senses? Could they expand our universe?

Technology has long been used to help people who have lost, or were born without, one of the five primary senses. More recently, researchers in the emerging field of “sensory enhancement” have begun developing tools to give people additional senses—ones that imitate those of other animals, or that add capabilities nature never imagined. Here’s how such devices could work, and how they might change what it means to be human.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/beyond-the-five-senses/528699/

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