system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If you lose one of your five senses, do the others actually grow stronger, and if they do how is that possible?

If it is possible, could a human who has not lost one of their senses train a sense to be stronger?
gpt
It's not that the senses get stronger in an absolute sense. Someone who is blind doesn't gain the ability to hear sounds that would be too soft for a sighted person. It's a matter of attention and processing in the brain. A blind person may notice the soft sound that a sighted person would ignore because of how soft it is, not because their sense of hearing is stronger, but because more of their brain is focused on processing the information being gathered by their sense of hearing.