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How extreme environments rewire basic cognitive processes

I work on deep-sea mining equipment and I've been down so long that I dream in sonar pings and pressure readings instead of images.

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The mind adapts so completely to alien conditions that ordinary perception becomes foreign.

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“Where Are You with Extreme environments — poles high altitude deep ocean?”

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