Can we create new senses for humans? | David Eagleman

Change is endlessly fascinating to brains. ‘Almost all perception is based on the detection of change’ says the neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott. ‘Our perceptual systems basically don’t work unless there are changes to detect.’ In a stable environment, the brain is relatively calm. But when it detects change, that event is immediately register

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00:07:27 How Memories Form

Perception: taking in the sensations and focusing on them. Under the control of your attention. Two attentional spotlights are possible and you can dilute, concentrate your attention.