Your tongue is also super tactile. We spend most of our toddler years discovering this.
You can look at anything around you, anything, and your brain knows exactly what it would be like to lick it, even if you've never done it before. Taste, texture, residue etc.. it's quite freaky
Oh and my thighs are really good at imagining my phone just buzzed.
Yeah, if you tilt your head back and pretend you're shaking a salt shaker into your mouth, you will actually taste salt.
I don't taste anything. Does it matter how hard I shake it?
You have to close your eyes, open your mouth wide and put your tongue out for the desired effect. Maybe it helps if you have some bystanders who cheer you on.
Use two hands.
Here's another: the human ear is phenomenal at determining where in 3d space a sound is coming from. Most animals can only determine direction and can't really place a sound vertically. Watch what your cat or dog does when they're looking for the source of a noise, it takes them a lot longer.
I've heard that this is the reason dogs will tilt their head when looking curiously at something, as this lets them better differentiate sound positions vertically.
I thought it was because their snout blocks their vision when they try to look downwards at something?
One blindspot is that the ear is not good at determining whether the sound comes directly in front or back of the head.
the human *ears. we need both ears working together to determine the source of a sound.
teamwork makes the dream work, people.
As a single dude, I can tell You, that's not the only thing a human hand is good at.
The area immediately before your hand is also really good at letting you know the time.
You can also scratch pretty much any part of your butt crack just by feel.
With your hand.
With your hand, right?
With whatever is in your pockets.
There's a hole in my pocket 😏
Then picking the exact correct thing
It can easily tell what item is a coin, but how much that coin is worth is hard for it to do. (Trying to grab a nickel vs a quarter, etc.)
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A nickel is smaller and thicker, and has a smooth edge compared to the quarter. Can you not tell the difference?
A nickel is smaller and thicker, and has a smooth edge compared to the quarter. Can you not tell the difference?
When you're jiggling around in your pocket for it and there's other coins in there too, it becomes harder to do.
I'm not saying there's a 0% chance of figuring it out by touch alone, just that by touch identifying a coin (vs a not-coin) is a lot easier to do than by touch identifying what amount an individual coin is worth. (In the U.S. at least.)
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When you’re jiggling around in your pocket for it and there’s other coins in there too, it becomes harder to do.
Well, sure. Adding many variables usually makes anything harder to do. But that generally just means it takes a little more effort.
Are your hands horribly mangled or something? Am I bringing up something hard for you to deal with?
And human eyes are incredible at seeing things
Human balls are incredibly great at feeling immense pain at even the slightest slap with a riding crop.
There are over 1 trillion nerve ending in your hand
Just kidding I made that up
"And the average human only utilizes 10% of those nerve endings"
Too bad that my brain apparently still can't figure out the difference between they keys for my front door, shed and bike lock. Still requires 3 tries just like with USB sticks.
Maybe you could apply different tapes or something to the keys to tell them apart.
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.