Re: How powerful is the human mind?
Well, being able to tell when you're upside down is just your "sense" of balance, which is controlled by your inner ear. So I guess it's an extension of your sense of hearing. I suppose you could also say part of it is from your sense of touch (you can feel the blood rushing to your head, etc.).
What Reach is saying is that yes, we can detect things like where a person is relative to us, but we do it all with our 5 natural senses.
The sense of hearing can be very powerful if honed, but as humans we tend to largely ignore its capabilities. You think of it mainly for being useful only for hearing what people say or the sound effects of the world, but you also use it as a sort of radar. The way you can tell where a sound is coming from is from the sound waves reaching your ears at slightly different times, and if necessary, this skill can be used to tell where other people, objects, etc. are located.
I'm sure everyone's heard this before, but when a person goes completely blind, they start to hone their other senses to a much greater extent. We humans rely on our sense of sight so much that we ignore a lot of less clear sensory input, but without it, we'd be forced to pay attention to that stuff. Blind people often learn to use their sense of hearing to get a sense of a room and where people are, much like animals that have poor vision.
Anyway, what I'm getting at is that there is a lot of sensory information feeding into our brains from our five senses, and we only consciously pay attention to the most obvious ones. It's not too surprising that we would share another "sense" from conclusions drawn from the rest of the input subconsciously.
Well, being able to tell when you're upside down is just your "sense" of balance, which is controlled by your inner ear. So I guess it's an extension of your sense of hearing. I suppose you could also say part of it is from your sense of touch (you can feel the blood rushing to your head, etc.).
What Reach is saying is that yes, we can detect things like where a person is relative to us, but we do it all with our 5 natural senses.
The sense of hearing can be very powerful if honed, but as humans we tend to largely ignore its capabilities. You think of it mainly for being useful only for hearing what people say or the sound effects of the world, but you also use it as a sort of radar. The way you can tell where a sound is coming from is from the sound waves reaching your ears at slightly different times, and if necessary, this skill can be used to tell where other people, objects, etc. are located.
I'm sure everyone's heard this before, but when a person goes completely blind, they start to hone their other senses to a much greater extent. We humans rely on our sense of sight so much that we ignore a lot of less clear sensory input, but without it, we'd be forced to pay attention to that stuff. Blind people often learn to use their sense of hearing to get a sense of a room and where people are, much like animals that have poor vision.
Anyway, what I'm getting at is that there is a lot of sensory information feeding into our brains from our five senses, and we only consciously pay attention to the most obvious ones. It's not too surprising that we would share another "sense" from conclusions drawn from the rest of the input subconsciously.
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