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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Could a human cope with super senses?
« on: 21/03/2004 00:14:55 »
Neil, I see your point(s) but I'd have to say if we had the extra senses, the most we could possibly learn to do (at least imediatly) is find a way to block some of them out so they didn't bother us. We haven't had technology for that long (not even primative tools) in terms of evolutionary times, that I really don't think we could have lost that much sensational acutiy in such a short time frame. So while everyone likes to blame our "lazy senses" on our technology dependence, I really think its more of an intilectual dependence.
Just because a trait is "better" than another doesn't mean it will evolve, there has to be some sort of evolutaionary pressure for that to happen. The reason I say this is because with our brain we probably could figure out a way to process a great deal more input than we do now, but there is no evolutionary pressure for us to do so, so I don't see it ever happening.
Yar, the flies be everywhere maty....save yerselves!!!
Just because a trait is "better" than another doesn't mean it will evolve, there has to be some sort of evolutaionary pressure for that to happen. The reason I say this is because with our brain we probably could figure out a way to process a great deal more input than we do now, but there is no evolutionary pressure for us to do so, so I don't see it ever happening.
Yar, the flies be everywhere maty....save yerselves!!!