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yvannairie) wrote2018-12-31 04:43 pm
yvannairie) wrote2018-12-31 04:43 pm
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That, too, is like a. Thing, the lack of a working definition of which fields count when discussing electromagnetic perception.
Even the flattest definition I use ("uh, like, a magnetometer? Look, I have some cool double exposure footage where you can see the magnetic 'aura' of a laptop") is something that would require multiple sensors working together and I find it more elegant (and likelier to have developed naturally) if instead their magnetic perception is interference-based and more software reliant than wholly mechanical
which
shit, where do you even begin with that? The closest analogue humans have is our ability to sense temperature, except heat is way simpler, it's just more radiation while magnetism is famously Bullshit even by physicists' standards.
Even the flattest definition I use ("uh, like, a magnetometer? Look, I have some cool double exposure footage where you can see the magnetic 'aura' of a laptop") is something that would require multiple sensors working together and I find it more elegant (and likelier to have developed naturally) if instead their magnetic perception is interference-based and more software reliant than wholly mechanical
which
shit, where do you even begin with that? The closest analogue humans have is our ability to sense temperature, except heat is way simpler, it's just more radiation while magnetism is famously Bullshit even by physicists' standards.