Some evidence that human beings can detect single photons of light!! https://www.nature.com/news/people-can-sense-single-photons-1.20282 … (via @fulhack ).
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"The most amazing thing is that it’s not like seeing light. It’s almost a feeling, at the threshold of imagination". They had 3 volunteers for 2400 trials. Do you think they *learned* how to sense photons?
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No idea, but they were very careful to run it properly and rule out the normal effects that muck up physiology experiments. Also, it was probably run mostly on WEIRD—white, educated, industrialised, rich, developed—folk, so who knows how the rest of humanity will do?
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