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+Why can people, who have their eyes closed, sense objects that are
+approaching but not yet touching?
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+Extrasensory perception isn't a legitimate phenomenon, demonstrated by
+the lack of scientific evidence for any such claims: random individuals,
+if tested to discover the qualities of hidden objects or images that
+were shown to a different individual in a separate room, cannot
+accurately determine above random chance those qualities. Even people
+who claim to have the sensitivity score about random and make claims
+about how the scientific rigor of the environment or lack of belief
+reduces their power.
+
+This is because, as has been shown by studies which miss a control or a
+piece of information or otherwise "leak" data to the participants or
+even the experimenters (by a failure to "double-blind"), people (esp.
+those who claim to have ESP) are very good at subconscious inferencing
+and develop senses about "impossible to know" knowledge from this kind
+of data leakage.
+
+Walking around in a room with one's eyes closed is much more leaky than
+any of the scientific experiments on ESP. The floor can have a slight
+grade towards objects, especially large heavy ones in older buildings.
+The memory of a person about room structure and similar inferencing can
+allow for internal spatial mapping to readily develop. Even the sound of
+footsteps echoing off of objects (similar to echolocative skills which
+certain blind communities have been able to develop) can generate clues.
+
+The human brain is designed to be hypersensitive to spatial information
+regardless of the visual component, so the innate ability of an ordinary
+person to wander around a room with their eyes closed is unsurprising.