I've often struggled with these notions, as they are brought up in the media in cycles. Our normal faculties are faulty and tenuous, so I don't see why other, l

I've often struggled with these notions, as they are brought up in the media in cycles. Our normal faculties are faulty and tenuous, so I don't see why other, less-used faculties should be discounted because they seem faulty or tenuous. Seems like an unfair double standard. One can suppose that there /must/ be an evolutionary advantage to have developed such senses, but maybe they are a by product of some other feature of the brain. I mean, early humans didn't need iPhones to figure out how to trap a boar, but it turns out that we use the same set of faculties to build both the trap and the iPhone.