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beyond 5 senses
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: sinvin-ga List Price: $2.00 |
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25 Feb 2005 14:49 PST
Expires: 27 Mar 2005 14:49 PST Question ID: 480922 |
What are some of the things that we know that go (like certain sound heard by animals not humans) beyond 5 senses of human being (seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting). Are there any converter to change these things into the form that we understand? |
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Re: beyond 5 senses
From: guzzi-ga on 25 Feb 2005 19:16 PST |
Sharks (and many other fish) have extremely sensitive electric field sensors. Emulating with electronics is practical and in theory relatively simple, but our evaluation of the data falls much short of what a shark does with it. Same is true for bat ultrasonics. Easy to receive the sound and convert to audible frequencies, but how the bat manages to decipher its own signal from hundreds of others is truly remarkable. There are quite a few applications for electric field detection. One interesting (though dubious) proposal is for stabilising model planes in flight with detectors on the wing tips, utilising the variation of charge with height. As for ultrasonics, medical scans, material probing, sonar etc. Bats often use a technique called ?chirp?, which is exactly what it sounds like to us when the frequency is converted for our ears. By sending out a chirp pulse which ramps (or drops) in frequency, they can use a relatively long pulse which affords a better signal to noise, whilst still retaining the ability to locate very small objects. And whattya know, we sometimes use the same system for sonar and radar, number crunched by fast Fourier transform. Clever little bats. Best |
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Re: beyond 5 senses
From: amber00-ga on 26 Feb 2005 13:43 PST |
G E Moore, in Principia Ethica (1903), suggested that normal human beings also had a moral sense, by which they were able to discern goodness and wrongness. |
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Re: beyond 5 senses
From: thunkit-ga on 09 Mar 2005 07:24 PST |
In addition to echolocation and electrosensitivity, there are other senses some animals possess that we humans do not have. A note first about echolocation. It has been suggested that the size of the dolphin's brain (larger than human's) has been attributed to their ability to create highly detailed pictures of what their echosoundings tell them. If this is so, it raises echolocation from merely information gathering to a true sense. In most birds, there is a small piece of magnetic material (hematite) located in the brain that allows for a magnetic direction sense. Humans supposedly have something like this, but it is not large enough anymore to be of use. Humans and many other animals possess a subsidiary sense of smell set with preset specific receptors that stimulate a different part of the brain than the normal sense of smell. Indications are that it is for pheramones, (I do not want to get into the arguement of weather they even exist for humans) but the 'hardware' is there. |
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