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A bold and perhaps off-putting title, I'll admit. 😅
No woo woo here, versus bootleg DIY neuroscience.
Basically the mind doesn't see reality directly, but rather a view filtered via memories, patterns of meaning from various senses.
For example, wetness comes from pressure, texture and temperature. The sense of depth from bifocal vision, movement through space.
Neuroscience in the areas of sensory substitution expansion and addition since the 60s has shown how by continually giving new but relevant/contextual patterns into an existing sense, the mind will construct new ones "psychically" (neuronal growth, learned engrams takes time - week-month of wear like one would glasses)
This also changes concept space, perception - a blind person can't solve problems visually, a deaf person has trouble with symphony.
This is sort of like learning the language of a sense, in the same way language once learned is no longer just letters, sentence structures versus the landscapes of ideas "seen" through those underlying patterns.
The wristbands convert modular sensor data (or wireless) to haptic vibration patterns continually. So for example when using thermal array sensors, it will give me not just expanded thermal but also spatial information of where people move out of view. (spidey sense!) This is due to how the mind constructs maps of reality both environmental but conceptual as well (place/grid cells if into neuroscience). More information, different information is afforded to each perceptual manifold.
So I know when items have recently been outdoors, where people have recently sat or touched things. What vehicles outside have recently been parked. So much conceptual information abounds.
Reality is strange, and so are we. So much is possible, by asking different questions, taking new perspectives on things.
Happy to expand more, share more details/explain in depth more, link to papers if really interested, but that's the very short short of it.
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