You know what seeing is like—or hearing, or feeling. But for people who are learning (or relearning) those senses anew, they don’t work in quite the same way. Prostheses, bionic implants, and drugs are creating new neural signals and novel experiences of the world. And it turns out, discovering how to build a sense from scratch is one step closer to amplifying it. Infrared vision, hypertactile sensitivity, and Jaime Sommers-level hearing, here we come.
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