This is SO COOL! I would not trust my ears to be "good enough" at picking up the subtle sound refractions that this kid can hear, but watching this I think, "Hm...maybe there's more to these two little ears than I ever imagined!"
This reinforces my previous comment. If we open up to the possibilities of our minds and bodies I think we would prove to be what would be considered now superhuman. I cannot believe he can play video games, to me that is simply impossible but I am obviously mistaken. And that echo location, it is just simply incredible.
Is it true that when you lose one of your senses, the rest of them are heightened? Is this simply because your brain rewires itself to compensate for the lose of this sense?
I worked with a deaf woman in a theatre show who explained that she has very wide peripheral vision and can keep track of of others are on stage. We were also rehearsing over a ballroom and one night they were playing really load music downstairs. She became very distracted because she could feel the vibrations of the sound, though she could not hear the music with her ears. I was pretty astonished at the sensitivity of her senses.
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This is SO COOL! I would not trust my ears to be "good enough" at picking up the subtle sound refractions that this kid can hear, but watching this I think, "Hm...maybe there's more to these two little ears than I ever imagined!"
ReplyDeleteRemember our brains are plastic which means we can over time train our ears to attune similarly as this young man does
ReplyDeleteThis reinforces my previous comment. If we open up to the possibilities of our minds and bodies I think we would prove to be what would be considered now superhuman. I cannot believe he can play video games, to me that is simply impossible but I am obviously mistaken. And that echo location, it is just simply incredible.
ReplyDeleteWith small incremental steps we too can open to perceiving and interacting with a radically different world
ReplyDeleteIs it true that when you lose one of your senses, the rest of them are heightened? Is this simply because your brain rewires itself to compensate for the lose of this sense?
ReplyDeleteI worked with a deaf woman in a theatre show who explained that she has very wide peripheral vision and can keep track of of others are on stage. We were also rehearsing over a ballroom and one night they were playing really load music downstairs. She became very distracted because she could feel the vibrations of the sound, though she could not hear the music with her ears. I was pretty astonished at the sensitivity of her senses.
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