Of the senses we’re familiar with or aware of, anyway, e.g. taste/smell/hearing/vision/touch.

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    The vision of the Mantis Shrimp.

    From wikkipedia:

    Compared with the three types of photoreceptor cell that humans possess in their eyes, the eyes of a mantis shrimp have between 12 and 16 types of photoreceptor cells. Furthermore, some of these shrimp can tune the sensitivity of their long-wavelength colour vision to adapt to their environment.

    Not sure what it would make the world around me look like but I would love to find out.

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      They probably can’t see colour very well though. They may have more receptors but they can’t mix those as well as humans so it’s a bit like looking at an 8 bit game with some new colours. Also the resolution of their eyes is abysmal. Birds have one receptor more (UV) and really sharp vision. That’s where it’s at imo.

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        Yeah but a mantis shrimp’s eyes wired up to a human’s brain would be neat because our brains are more powerful and therefore could probably make better sense of the inputs than a shrimp’s.

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      in the magic land where suddenly you had mantis shrimp vision and everything else being equal you’d probably just see stuff more or less the same, but probably wouldn’t be able to see coherent information from screens as they are designed to work with human (and recently by proxy) mammalian eyesight (i still don’t think cats and dogs can parse images from CRT displays but they seem to do just fine with LCDs, but that’s just anecdotal… like my entire comment)