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So this is a thought question, and it's a really interesting thought question that's asking us to think about how we, as humans, cope with declines in our ability to see and our ability to hear and something we'd think less about, but our ability to taste as we grow older.
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So how do humans cope with declines in these different abilities as we grow older? or obviously humans have been sort of contending this for many, many years, thousands of years.
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People wear glasses, of course, there's contact lenses, and depending on the type of sight loss or site decrease that people have, sometimes surgery is a possibility.
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Depending on your age, you may have grandparents, for example, you've had cataracts removed from their eyes.
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Catteracts used to be a very common cause of blindness or at least impaired vision up until about 40 or 50 years ago.
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Hearing, of course, we have hearing aids, which are analogous to glasses and that they are a technological attempt to help us improve our hearing.
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If you wear hearing aids or know people who wear hearing aids, you know that they are an imperfect correction...