Then picking the exact correct thing
Your tongue is also super tactile. We spend most of our toddler years discovering this.
You can look at anything around you, anything, and your brain knows exactly what it would be like to lick it, even if you’ve never done it before. Taste, texture, residue etc… it’s quite freaky
Oh and my thighs are really good at imagining my phone just buzzed.
Yeah, if you tilt your head back and pretend you’re shaking a salt shaker into your mouth, you will actually taste salt.
I don’t taste anything. Does it matter how hard I shake it?
You have to close your eyes, open your mouth wide and put your tongue out for the desired effect. Maybe it helps if you have some bystanders who cheer you on.
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Here’s another: the human ear is phenomenal at determining where in 3d space a sound is coming from. Most animals can only determine direction and can’t really place a sound vertically. Watch what your cat or dog does when they’re looking for the source of a noise, it takes them a lot longer.
I’ve heard that this is the reason dogs will tilt their head when looking curiously at something, as this lets them better differentiate sound positions vertically.
the human *ears. we need both ears working together to determine the source of a sound.
teamwork makes the dream work, people.
One blindspot is that the ear is not good at determining whether the sound comes directly in front or back of the head.
The area immediately before your hand is also really good at letting you know the time.
As a single dude, I can tell You, that’s not the only thing a human hand is good at.
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Want to truly understand how good it is? Try getting a specific thing out of a pocket with a thick glove!
There are over 1 trillion nerve ending in your hand
Just kidding I made that up
“And the average human only utilizes 10% of those nerve endings”
Too bad that my brain apparently still can’t figure out the difference between they keys for my front door, shed and bike lock. Still requires 3 tries just like with USB sticks.
Maybe you could apply different tapes or something to the keys to tell them apart.
You can also scratch pretty much any part of your butt crack just by feel.
With your hand.
With your hand, right?
With whatever is in your pockets.
There’s a hole in my pocket 😏
Then picking the exact correct thing
It can easily tell what item is a coin, but how much that coin is worth is hard for it to do. (Trying to grab a nickel vs a quarter, etc.)
A nickel is smaller and thicker, and has a smooth edge compared to the quarter. Can you not tell the difference?
This guy fishes in his pockets with his hands.
A nickel is smaller and thicker, and has a smooth edge compared to the quarter. Can you not tell the difference?
When you’re jiggling around in your pocket for it and there’s other coins in there too, it becomes harder to do.
I’m not saying there’s a 0% chance of figuring it out by touch alone, just that by touch identifying a coin (vs a not-coin) is a lot easier to do than by touch identifying what amount an individual coin is worth. (In the U.S. at least.)
When you’re jiggling around in your pocket for it and there’s other coins in there too, it becomes harder to do.
Well, sure. Adding many variables usually makes anything harder to do. But that generally just means it takes a little more effort.
Are your hands horribly mangled or something? Am I bringing up something hard for you to deal with?
Are your hands horribly mangled or something? Am I bringing up something hard for you to deal with?
Hands? It’s horribly hard to fit my trunk into my pockets.
The brain is good at taking the information given it and creating a virtual image, including filling in missing parts. Both for touch and for the mention of hearing to calculate location. It can also be fooled because of this wiring, as it tries to find patterns where they may not exist.
Your brain also has a model of the reality it’s interacting with. If the tactile sensation matches something in the library, that’s the image that gets pulled up.
This system is far from perfect but usually it works pretty well. When it fails, you get false positives, illusions etc.
I disagree, if my pocket is busy I need to take things out to tell the difference between them. Also, my hands can’t tell the difference between my cards.
I wonder if this is an acquired skill. I’m reminded of working on cars and having to build “touch sight” where you “see” things hidden behind an engine block or other obstruction by feel alone.
What’s in my pocket?
handses
Ohhhhhh, tricksy hobbitses. We hates them.
Pocket sand
I’m more curious about what’s in the box.
Pain!
Without love?
It is a quote from Dune
Gaius Helen Mohiam: The test is simple. Remove your hand from the box, and you die. Paul Atreides: What’s in the box? Gaius Helen Mohiam: Pain.
Ah. My original reference was to Se7en:
https://youtu.be/1giVzxyoclE(Warning, spoilers for a thirty year old movie)
My second reference was to a Three Days Grace song:
https://youtu.be/Ud4HuAzHEUc(Warning, song from … Maybe fifteen years ago?)
Great song. 3DG was so good back then.
Oh yes Se7en, such a great movie 🍿 It’s really nearly 30 years old, damn… I still vividly remember when the film was in cinema.
It actually is thirty years old! At least according to DDG, it came out in 1995.
I missed out on a lot of classic media; my parents were anti TV, so the only shows I was allowed to watch were FRIENDS, Seinfeld and Simpsons, primarily because that’s what my parents watched. Eventually I was allowed to choose two weekly TV shows of my own to watch every week (I went with Power Rangers and Batman: TAS). Even more eventually, my brother and I were allowed to select one movie per week from the local VHS rental store to watch with our dad (and we alternated which of us picked) (potentially interesting given this thread: the original Dune movie was one of those I picked, but it took us two nights to finish because it was so long). The first movie I saw in theater was Lion King for a birthday. (I remember being so fascinated that I watched a good portion of it upside down because I was trying to figure out how the projector worked, so I was craning my head over backwards.)
Anyway, I would have been too young to watch a movie like Se7en in theater at the time of release; I think I saw it in or around 2008 which, IIRC, was also the first time I had a PB&J sandwich.
After writing this comment, I’m starting to think I might have been sheltered.
And human eyes are incredible at seeing things
Human balls are incredibly great at feeling immense pain at even the slightest slap with a riding crop.
