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greatscott · 3997 days ago · link · · parent · post: David Eagleman, PhD: Biological Limits of Human Perception (Being Human, Sept. 2013 San Francisco)
For the sake of playing devil's advocate, I'll argue it could be, especially if it generates a new passive perception of your environment. Even if the information is being fed to somatosensory receptors, the information conveyed and interpreted is still magnetic-field information at the end of day. The bigger question to me is: can you feed different information streams through shared receptors and be able to maintain two distinct senses out of this? In the case of the magnets in the finger-tips, it may not end up being too confounding as I would guess the push/pull of the magnets would be peristant and override other tactile information at those specific receptors. :: shrug :: I'm just playing thought-games, though.