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Which heightened/different senses of other animals would you most like to experience (while still being human)? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Of the senses we're familiar with or aware of, anyway, e.g. taste/smell/hearing/vision/touch.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Our eyes are not ideal for living in air. They're fish eyes that adapted over and over so they work well-enough in the air. I want to know what a purpose built air eye would be like.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Our eyes are pretty good at working in air though. The only thing that makes them fish like is that they have to stay moisturised really. I doubt that filling them with air would do much, we could maybe get rid of floaters though. The dumbest thing about our eyes is that they’re inverted with nerves and blood vessels being in front of the receptor cells so I’m wondering how much they’d improve if they were properly constructed like in squid.

[–] RBWells 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, my eyes are not great. If robotic eyes get developed in my lifetime and could work, and maybe see more than mine do (night vision mode, sunglass mode, other sorts of settings to see things my eyes can't) I would be an early adopter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Our vitreous fluid has an almost identical refractive index to sea water, so anything we look at not in sea water is distorted to some degree and our brains have to fix it. They do a good job, but it could be a lot better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Your wish is granted, you get bug eyes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

those are crustacean eye derivatives

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how they would differ? Maybe more like a camera? Though that is pretty similar to ours.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If they were air filled, which would the best for refraction/distortion avoidance, how would the air get in there? Eye vents would be problematic when swimming.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Eye vents just sound weird....