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

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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] 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.