Think about it. Isn’t light+eyes and ears+sound just the same in terms of their “influence at a distance”? We don’t feel that as abnormal or magic - simply because we’ve sensors for them and are used to it. But physically speaking light and magnetism are based on electromagnetic forces.

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      Fair point, I didn’t know about that. But even then, most of us don’t feel like we can feel it - and in the modern city living spaces it gets even less important to train such a sense.

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        Earth’s field is very large and very weak compared to small strong household magnets.

        Whatever senses we’ve evolved for navigation could be dealing in a completely different scales so as to be useless.

        It might be like trying to use a 5ml teaspoon to measure the volume liquid in a of a bathtub.
        or using an alcohol thermometer to measure the temperature of molten iron