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Posted on: January 25, 2007 5:51 PM, by Dave Munger
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Holy cow! So Thomas Nagel could have his famous question answered by this young man...
Posted by: Kurt | January 25, 2007 9:38 PM
Oops, I see that I wasn't the first to think of that connection. Should have checked the hyperlinks before commenting.
Posted by: Kurt | January 25, 2007 10:02 PM
A friend of mine lost his eyes to cancer at the age of three. A few years later, he was cycling slowly around his area on ecolocation. Now he's a radio journalist.
Posted by: Martin R | January 26, 2007 5:16 AM
Another blog was discussing whether or not there might be some sort of relation between the clicking sounds in Khoisan languages and this ability to navigate using echolocation. The Khoisan people live in a very open, dry part of Africa today, but long ago the area they inhabited was probably more heavily forested. It seems like a long-shot but echolocation might have come in handy.
Posted by: mike | January 26, 2007 3:28 PM
What is it like to be a bat? (pdf)
Posted by: coturnix | January 27, 2007 1:58 PM
Remarkable. See also Brice Mellen.
Posted by: Jonathan Dobres | January 31, 2007 8:49 AM
Yeah, that is really impressive, though I'd like to see some scientists taking a good look at what that kid does (it'd be interesting to see how much of his visual cortex has been taken over by his auditory system, too).
And the paper on cogprints is more than iffy.
Posted by: Chris | April 5, 2007 3:43 AM