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Humans are more adaptable than you think:

- echolocation in blind humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation

- sight through signals sent on tongue https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/device-lets-blind...

In the latter case, I recall reading the people involved ended up perceiving these signals as a "first order" sense (not consciously treated information, but on an intuitive level like hearing or vision).



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