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>> I wonder how long the training takes. > Hang out in the shower and with eyes closed move your head around and try to figure out how far you are from the wal
by fsckboy 4y ago
>> I wonder how long the training takes.
> Hang out in the shower and with eyes closed move your head around and try to figure out how far you are from the walls. This is very easy.
not really taking sides here, but given that it takes about 18 years of play and training for boys to fine tune their sensory-neuro-motor eye-hand-everything else coordination (and based on women's gymnastics, maybe slightly less time for girls? probably has more to do with adolescent growth spurts), along the way we pick up echo location like you speak of in the shower. It's subtle, but I imagine it takes a good amount of time/repeated trials to develop, maybe one of those 10,000 hours things. (I realize that book has been debunked, but still)
- xkcd-sucks 4y agoSorry, not for development of anything close to sighted perception in normal adults but more an example of how some degree of non sighted perception is practically achivable. Fwiw my eyes work pretty well and I rely on them for everything, but also learned how to not break my toes in the dark etc. The shower thing is of course trivial though. Presumably people that rely on hearing exclusivelly for spatially oriented perception have a whole lot more nuance and detail on which to comment.
- wingerlang 4y ago> .. but also learned how to not break my toes in the dark With echolocation?