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    Humans actually possess a protein (cryptochromes) needed for the detection of magnetic fields which they could theoretically sense, but it seems that our brain doesn't seem to have any way to decode this information

    https://www.nature.com/articles/…

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    • maybe they didn't discover it yet...I recall a reading Aboriginals in Australia are known to always know where N,S,W,E is.uan
    • they greet each other in the middle of the desert by saying which direction they are coming from. this might train / develop that capability from small age on.uan
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    • @uan
      Hidden Brain had an episode on it.
      https://www.npr.org/…
      It can be learned, I guess they're consistently keeping track at a low level.      palimpsest
    • could also just be we know east/ west on sunrise/set and somehow our brains process the tweening in the background during the day:)uan
    • didn't know hidden brain...tnx!uan
    • I think if you were to kidnap one of them, knock them out and put them in a room without windows they wouldn't know what's where.palimpsest
    • I reckon we all know at a subconscious level. Some are better at realising it.microkorg
    • This explains why some people are really bad with navigation. ie my wife. She cant even make sense of google mapsBeeswax
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