Think about it. Isn’t light+eyes and ears+sound just the same in terms of their “influence at a distance”? We don’t feel that as abnormal or magic - simply because we’ve sensors for them and are used to it. But physically speaking light and magnetism are based on electromagnetic forces.
You can implant a small magnet in your fingertip and then have the ability to sense magnetic fields.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_implant
Get ready to make friends with every TSA agent you see for the rest of your life, and pray you never need an MRI.
It doesn’t even have to be a finger. There are so many underused parts of the body
Now that’s gonna be a fun MRI
Why do I feel called out by this comment
Any nipple can be a magnetic antenna
Finally mens nipples get something to be useful at.
I vote for mens liberation and rights for magnetic nipples!
Fair point, but then, most people don’t have this.
And even if you do it, you need to get some experience for your brain to develop a model of what to expect in certain situations. For instance, your brain will need some time to get used to the fact, that putting our hand on a fridge will give the brain new sensory stimuli because of the magnets on the fridge.
This intuitive understanding of light and sound is just that - brain neurons being used to what to expect. And even with an implant you would need to train that.
Though I’m definitely curious to experience once how that would feel like 😄