David Eagleman is involved in research that explores the possibilities of expanding our human umwelt to include information we don’t currently have access to through our five senses. He explains that the brain “doesn’t care how it gets the information, as long as it gets it.”11 At a 2015 TED conference, Eagleman described the potential future results of sensory substitution, whereby “new senses” are created for people: There’s really no end to the possibilities on the horizon for human expansion. Just imagine an astronaut being able to feel the overall health of the International Space
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