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How You Perceive the World Isn’t Quite Right & Why Productivity is Very Overrated

Something You Should Know

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Evolution Tunes an Animal's Senses to Its Needs

Evolution tunes an animal's ombalt, an animal's senses to its particular needs. We humans have very good eyes but we don't sense electric fields of the kind that every living thing inevitably produces. There are fish that can sense those electric fields. They tend to live in very, very murky water where vision isn't very useful, but an electric sense is very useful. In a similar way, animals that tend to navigate over incredibly long distances like songbirds or sea turtles have the ability to sense the earth's magnetic field.

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