Thursday, July 14, 2011

Sixth sense

There are bacteria that can sense magnetic fields and sharks can sense electric fields.  These are real sixth and seventh senses.  But humans don't have them.

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  1. I have read discussion through the years of evidence of human magnetic field detection; see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17069982 for an example abstract.

    Humans (some?) can also detect polarization, which I would consider a separate sense from plain vision (see Haidinger's Brush).

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