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Comment by taneq

7 years ago

I'd imagine they work directly in the frequency domain. They don't "see with sound", they'll just hear nested spheres or whatever.

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all2  7 years ago

This suggests to me that humans could harness the same audio phenomena.

  • taneq  7 years ago

    Some people can. There's a few cases of blind humans who can echolocate to some degree of accuracy (enough to ride a skateboard in one case).

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