chaosmage comments on Brainstorming new senses - Less Wrong

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Comment author: chaosmage 21 May 2015 06:49:39PM 6 points [-]

Similar to true north, a sense that always points to a specific person. I think this might non-obvious use for people with poor attachment who can lose, on a deep level, a sense of being connected with someone when they're not physically around, and can need a while to build it up again when that person comes back. Also for young kids, who sometimes experience the sensation of not knowing where their mom is as quite traumatic.

Comment author: gucciCharles 11 June 2016 07:19:39AM 0 points [-]

How would that work though. This isn't magic and I assume that there is some feature of north (something like magnetics) that explains how this works. I mean, it must be the case that there is some feature of facing north that we can learn to detect. However how can you detect the direction of a person, it's not like they are likely to emit some kind of planet wide signal.

Comment author: chaosmage 13 June 2016 01:02:23AM 0 points [-]

GPS and cell connection.

Comment author: gucciCharles 05 September 2016 07:23:43PM 0 points [-]

I'm talking about in the case of the humans.