Think about it. Isn’t light+eyes and ears+sound just the same in terms of their “influence at a distance”? We don’t feel that as abnormal or magic - simply because we’ve sensors for them. But physically speaking light and magnetism are based on electromagnetic forces.
And I’m over here still jealous of plants for their photosynthesis and capillary action.
hperrin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can implant a small magnet in your fingertip and then have the ability to sense magnetic fields.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_implant
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It doesn’t even have to be a finger. There are so many underused parts of the body
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Why do I feel called out by this comment
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
Magnetically sensitive taint here I come!
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Don’t be gross tammy
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Probably shouldn’t put any at the base of your penis, women with piercings might not enjoy it…
H2207@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That was one incredible cyborg rabbit-hole I just went down.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Get ready to make friends with every TSA agent you see for the rest of your life, and pray you never need an MRI.
swnt@feddit.de 1 year ago
Fair point, but then, most people don’t have this.
And even if you do it, you need to get some experience for your brain to develop a model of what to expect in certain situations. For instance, your brain will need some time to get used to the fact, that putting our hand on a fridge will give the brain new sensory stimuli because of the magnets on the fridge.
This intuitive understanding of light and sound is just that - brain neurons being used to what to expect. And even with an implant you would need to train that.
Though I’m definitely curious to experience once how that would feel like 😄
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Get a tight-fitting glove, sew some magnets onto the fingers, wear the glove for awhile.
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, it’d be no different than what it does for all the other sensors. Just those kick on and start training at birth whereas any augment is going to be in adulthood. But the brain is really really good at figuring that stuff out so it’d be interesting, kinda want to do it now lolol
nxfsi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No thanks Elon
Albert_Einstein@lemmy.world 1 year ago
detecting magnetism will rarely be useful for humans especially in the context of survival
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You would have at least one part to a functioning magnet at all times lol ¯_(ツ)_/¯