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All your senses are constructed out of more basic sensory inputs and presented to the rest of your brain as higher-level abstractions. Hearing, for example, doe
by ThrustVectoring 7y ago
All your senses are constructed out of more basic sensory inputs and presented to the rest of your brain as higher-level abstractions. Hearing, for example, doesn't just present the raw noises being heard, but also yields a best-guess about the direction and distance of noise sources, and you can argue that the audio-location function should technically be a separate "sense".
Proprioception being an abstraction over touch and sight data that generates awareness of how your body is arranged in space is a sense in the same manner. And you can definitely get proprioception over more than your own body - partner dancers will quickly develop a felt sense of how their dance partner's body is moving, as well.
- aurelianito 7y agoAs a tango dancer I can relate to feeling the position of my partner while dancing. Even weirder is that I can feel my car while driving and if I rent another car it takes me a while until I can also feel this other car as a part of myself.
- gerbilly 7y agoWhen you use a tool, the body learns to extend the proprioception 'through' the tool as well.