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by marshray 5599 days ago
Wouldn't it just be cool as heck if it turned out that this enabled "spooky action at a distance" ESP-type stuff under conscious control by the brain?

Heck, I'd settle for a just a built-in magnetometer or something so I didn't get lost.

(Sorry for the content-free post, I'm feeling slightly more whimsical than usual this Friday afternoon.)
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sesqu 5598 days ago
People may have a crappy built-in magnetometer, but it seems you don't need one - just a lot of practice. There are cultures that put such weight on the cardinal directions that they always maintain a sense of where they are facing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoception#In_humans http://www.isegoria.net/2010/08/does-your-language-shape-how...

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Nick_C 5598 days ago
Very interesting. I always had a very accurate sense of direction, to the point of not needing a compass when bushwalking to a map. Yet, when I moved to the other side of the continent, I was completely thrown.

I wondered to myself whether it was something to do with the very different magnetic declination. No evidence, of course.

I moved back and have regained it again. Mysterious.

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