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indigozeal) wrote2011-08-29 10:02 pm
indigozeal) wrote2011-08-29 10:02 pm
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Writer's Block: The state of perception
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Reminds me of an old Letterman Top Ten List of the most useless superpowers, where #7 or whatever was "super sense of smell." Looking at everyone else's answers, I'm surprised this isn't a rout.
I'm also surprised at how many are willing to give up their sense of sight, as that's the one sense without which I couldn't live. Text-translation work, reading, video games - too much of what I do and enjoy would be hampered by, say, loss of hearing but impossible without sight. And isn't sight for humans as uniquely sensitive and fine-tuned as smell is for so many other animals? Isn't it our forte, physically? I don't understand picking sight as the most expendable sense.
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Reminds me of an old Letterman Top Ten List of the most useless superpowers, where #7 or whatever was "super sense of smell." Looking at everyone else's answers, I'm surprised this isn't a rout.
I'm also surprised at how many are willing to give up their sense of sight, as that's the one sense without which I couldn't live. Text-translation work, reading, video games - too much of what I do and enjoy would be hampered by, say, loss of hearing but impossible without sight. And isn't sight for humans as uniquely sensitive and fine-tuned as smell is for so many other animals? Isn't it our forte, physically? I don't understand picking sight as the most expendable sense.
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