This reminds me of the new multi-messenger era of astronomy. Astronomical observation used to rely heavily on EM; light and sounds are much closer to our “naked” senses. Now we can extended our senses with particle colliders and interferometers, and perceive information that the gravitational wave and neutrino messengers carry from where light cannot reach. Technology breaches limits of what we can perceive… feel… know…
When a synesthetic friend of mine tried VR drawing, she drew what she saw while listening to the background music: colorful and energetic lines swirling around her in virtual space. Drawing that can be experienced through time and space lets us see the images in her head…
How far is the digitalization of all our senses when phone plugins for recording and sharing smells already exist: https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/17/tech/innovation/the-ophone-phone-lets-you-send-smells/index.html?no-st=9999999999.
