Can we create new senses for humans? | David Eagleman

Is reality what we are able to confirm with our five senses? As New Scientist magazine noted some years back, “This answer ignores such problematic entities as electrons, the recession and the number 5,” not to mention a heap of phantom limbs.

At the most basic, some things that we know to be potential objects of experience – sounds at particularly high or low frequencies, for example – are not available to us, though they may be to bats and bears; and that's simply because our brains do not deal with them. We know, too, that when parts of the brain are lost, a chunk of available experie