- rats’ brains, and presumably ours, tessellate the plane surface we walk on with multiple overlapping triangular grids
- (is there a mathematical reason triangles are optimal? euler characteristic, perhaps?)
- “path” neurons in the hippocampus fire as we cross these grids to reconstruct our previous paths
- “boundary” neurons in the hippocampus fire as we approach the boundaries of a space
- (what about agoramaniacs? or ancient people who hunted buffalo on the plain?)
Posts tagged with senses
I would like to have the following supernatural abilities:
- Ability to sense electromagnetic impulses and discern their energy level
- Awareness of physical disturbances, perhaps via compression waves in the physical surrounding
- Sense the speed of molecules moving nearby, at any point on body
- Electrical-pulse coordination of bodily kinetics
- Embedded supercomputer, for when I need to figure things out
- Self-repair of wounds
- Poison detection system
- Apparatus to identify nature of particulate matter floating in nearby environment
Oh wait. I can already do all those things.
- ability to grow hair
Hmm. Got that too.
