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Brains are incredibly adaptive. There are tons of experiences where people have had diminished or lost access to one of the senses and recovered surprisingly well.

I had a colleague once who had a stroke and described his vision afterwards as looking though splintered glass. After a while, he explained he didn’t perceive it anymore and that his brain just decided to “workaround” the issue making new connections where needed.

I think having some “sense” of magnetic fields could be very subtle, like just a feeling of which direction you’re facing when you’re turning around (you could argue you already use the position of the sun this way, subconsciously).

People into body mods who get a magnetic implant often describe it as a sixth sense [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_implant



https://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/ocular-migraine.ht...

Ocular migraines will give the splintered glass effect. They are temporary however.




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