David Eagleman
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Podcast Appearances
That's a private subjective experience we have of what's going on out there, even though it's really just spikes in the dark.
So that's what I've been working on for a while now, which is given that all these other animals have other kinds of things they can pick up on, what does it mean if we feed in that information?
And the answer is yes, we can absolutely have sixth sense, maybe many more.
We don't have any idea yet what the limit is on that.
But the idea is what can we pick up on computationally or with any machine or whatever, and then feed that into you?
So for example,
you know, something I've been very interested in is perceiving infrared light.
So you can set up, we've, you know, set this up with the wristband very inexpensively for five bucks.
You set up these infrared bolometers, they're called, they're, you know, just picking up on infrared light and you can walk around and feel the,
the temperature of things around you.
And as I'm walking through a parking lot, I can feel which cars have been parked there for a while versus which have just arrived in the last 20 minutes.
Because the engine block is a totally different temperature.
But it's just something I know as I'm walking through.
I'm just...
feeling that information.
Or if I come across two chairs, I can tell which chair was more recently sat in because there's still a temperature signature on it and so on.
There's a million things about this that one can just come to perceive in new sense, but you can have much wackier things.
We've done, we actually have 70 projects
If anybody's interested, go to neosensory.com slash developers and you can see our blog of all these different projects we have.
So, you know, stock market or feeling social media with your skin or firemen or blind people or people with prosthetics or there's a million different projects we have where we're feeding in new data streams.