Inner Nature: Making sense of the senses

By Vidya Rajan, Columnist, The Times In the brilliant movie adaptation of the potboiler Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton,[1] there is an early gripping scene where the Tyrannosaurus rex’s enormous head is just inches away from the paleontologist-protagonist, who whispers to two children beside him that the predator could not detect them if they stayed perfectly still. I remember my outrage as a...