You can take this literally. A more advanced humanity could invent new sensory organs that would provide new and different kinds of subjective experience. What does echolocation feel like? If you don’t see value in adding new senses to the human experience, consider this: would it be valuable to give sight to a blind person?
Sense organs don’t create sensory experience directly. When I for example feel where the feet of my dance partner happen to be it doesn’t feel like there’s a new sensory organ. The same goes for other cases where information that’s someone in my brain gets integrated in what I perceive.
Sensory organs are just a necessary part of what would be needed to get a new kind of sensory experience that correlates with something in the outside world. Otherwise, if you don’t care about the outside, they shouldn’t be necessary.
But I don’t understand 90% of your comment. Seriously confused about what this means:
When I for example feel where the feet of my dance partner happen to be it doesn’t feel like there’s a new sensory organ. The same goes for other cases where information that’s someone in my brain gets integrated in what I perceive.
Sensory organs are just a necessary part of what would be needed to get a new kind of sensory experience that correlates with something in the outside world.
That’s not true. I do gotten new sensory experiences with training that correlate with the outside world without having to grow any new sensory organs for that.
Seriously confused about what this means
Out of different new sensory experiences I aquired feeling where the feet of my partner are when I dance Bachata is one of them.
Sense organs don’t create sensory experience directly. When I for example feel where the feet of my dance partner happen to be it doesn’t feel like there’s a new sensory organ. The same goes for other cases where information that’s someone in my brain gets integrated in what I perceive.
Sensory organs are just a necessary part of what would be needed to get a new kind of sensory experience that correlates with something in the outside world. Otherwise, if you don’t care about the outside, they shouldn’t be necessary.
But I don’t understand 90% of your comment. Seriously confused about what this means:
That’s not true. I do gotten new sensory experiences with training that correlate with the outside world without having to grow any new sensory organs for that.
Out of different new sensory experiences I aquired feeling where the feet of my partner are when I dance Bachata is one of them.