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The other answers to your comment are great but I also want to point out that you can feel your brain doing that if you play some videogames for a long time. Yo
by simias 6y ago
The other answers to your comment are great but I also want to point out that you can feel your brain doing that if you play some videogames for a long time. You can feel that you develop an intuition for the way the game will behave even if the in-game physics are very different from our real word, showing the plasticity of our brain. If we had a fully hardcoded physics simulator in our head we couldn't "think with portals".
- Bjartr 6y agoThis reminds me of a story when VR was just becoming big. Someone had been playing the game "Job Simulator" in the restaurant level where you play as a cook in the kitchen of a restaurant. The player was constantly looking in the fridge for things and realized they didn't have to open the door since the game didn't stop their head from clipping through. So they would just stick their head through the door when they needed to check. Cut to a few hours later when they took a break and wanted a snack. So they went to their kitchen and tried to look in their real world fridge, and immediately slammed their head into the door as they tried to stick their head through it without thinking...
- ars 6y agoIf I play a racing game for a while, I find it pretty difficult to drive safely right afterward. I have not actually had any incidents, but I have to consciously not crash into things, or drive wildly.
- brokenmachine 6y agoI've had the same experience after playing FPS games for extended periods of time. Everything feels off.
- baq 6y agoI felt exactly this when playing Portal for the first time when it came out. It felt like nothing before or after. Highly recommended.