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Subject: beyond 5 senses
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: sinvin-ga
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Posted: 25 Feb 2005 14:49 PST
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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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Subject: 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.

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Subject: 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.
Subject: 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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