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Mar 20, 2015 20 min

David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans?

from TED Technology Hosted by TED: Ideas worth spreading

As humans, we can perceive less than a ten-trillionth of all light waves. “Our experience of reality,” says neuroscientist David Eagleman, “is constrained by our biology.” He wants to change that. His research into our brain processes has led him to create new interfaces to take in previously unseen information about the world around us. Watch a video of this talk

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