"No doubt many new senses remain to be discovered; there is no reason whatsoever
 to imagine that we have discovered all the possibilities"

 p. 162


 "Alien senses might be weirder still"

 p. 164


 "One important piece of evidence is that more neural connections run from the brain to the
 ear than from the ear to the brain. And about 10 percent of the fibers in the optic nerve
 also go the "wrong" way.... The brain has to "tune" the sense organ, so that it can detect
 what is needed." ...

 "So we're not born with the ability to perceive the world in the way that an adult does;
 we have to learn how to see and learn how to hear. Kittens that are prevented from seeing
 during the first few weeks after birth are unable to see at all whan they grow older.
 Kittens prevented from seeing particular patterns early on are unable to see those patterns
 in later life. The same goes for hearing.  What we see and hear changes our neural circuitry
 so that it becomes more able to deal with those features of the sensory world.  There must
 be a lot out there that we have never learned to see at all - it's part of the real universe,
 but we can't get it into our brains."

 p. 348, 349 

 "The Collapse of Chaos" by Profs. Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen  ISBN 0-670-84983-9

 Note: http://www.perceptions.couk.com/percepts.html#as has details of earlier academic
 publications on the subject.

 Also check http://www.perceptions.couk.com/illusion.txt for latest academic confirmation
 (2003 / 2004).

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 Recently found: the oldest known large predators are equiped with a sense-organ that detects
 temperature change, chemical traces, magnetic fields (inc. the Earth's), other animals' moves
 and even their brains' activities.  Yes - that's a "telepath" facility - of a sort.

 It's called an "Ampulla of Lorenzini" - a long thin tube with a nerve connected to the brain
 - and somehow works as a biological voltmeter, thermometer, compass, chemistry set and radio
 receiver - which sharks, rays, sawfish etc. are born with.

 In these animals, when new-born, the ampullae are a couple of centimeters long, from the snout
 to the brain, and already working.

 Their voltmeter / telepathy actions are sensitive enough(mV range) to find prey hidden under
 sand or behind rocks, and, by the sharks' side-to-side head-swinging (of 10 degrees) when
 swimming, they can pick up the direction of Earth's magnetic field.

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  www.perceptions.couk.com/conscious.html
  www.perceptions.couk.com/exosci.html
  www.perceptions.couk.com/percepts.html
  www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/wb2.html

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