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It's fascinating how plug & play our brain is. Just consistently supply information to it and voila, you have a new sense. One day we may have a marketplace wh
by krzat 3y ago
It's fascinating how plug & play our brain is. Just consistently supply information to it and voila, you have a new sense.
One day we may have a marketplace where you can purchase a sense of north or your spouse's body temperature, it will be interesting and weird.
- Vecr 3y agoThe sense of north is (was) already a thing. It kind of sucked though, and injecting a HUD into the front of a night vision tube is a lot more practical.
- edwcross 3y agoI've seen a few hacky projects (e. g. https://www.carlosterminel.com/wearable-compass https://www.carlosterminel.com/wearable-compass) over the years about haptic belts, and I've been wanting to try one of these, but I've never seen them commercialized. Have you tried them? Otherwise, could you please describe why the sense of north "kind of sucked"? In my experience, having a flagship Android phone with unreliable compass such that I cannot even get my bearings when leaving a subway station, is extremely annoying. Such a belt would seem more useful to me.
- vincnetas 3y agoThere are languages without the terms "Left, Right, Front, and Behind." These cultures use "North, South, East, and West" their whole lives no matter if they are in a room or in the woods. The result is a compass brain. They always know how they are oriented. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.htm...
- hinkley 3y agoI’m curious how or if that affects physical training, like gymnastics or martial arts.
- hanniabu 3y agoNo, they don't magically have some sense of north. They're just used to using it so much that they have a lot of points of reference to know which direction is which no matter where they are.
- anononaut 3y agoIt's just a succinct abstraction.
- arjvik 3y agoNot necessarily just a sense of reference, but also a practice of always keeping in mind what direction one is when changing direction (mentally summing up the deltas in direction). I do this when driving - I always know what direction I'm headed, even in an unfamiliar place (unless there are a ton of non-right-angle turns that confuse me, and then I have to check a map).
- hinkley 3y agoBlocking a punch or doing a kata also has no concept of north. It's usually bilateral. So if you don't have left or right... Do you pretend your face is north and instruct that way?
- thfuran 3y agoI'm not sure what you mean. Whichever way you happen to be facing, you can use an earth-relative coordinate system to disambiguate limbs rather than a person-relative one. I guess don't practice martial arts while standing on the north or south pole and you'll be fine.
- hinkley 3y agoHow do you explain throwing or joint-locking an opponent to someone who does not believe they have a right or a left arm? Both of these actions can involve turning around. Anywhere from 45º to 360º.
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- cebu 3y agoOthers do not have language for absolute directions. The Murrinhpatha in Australia. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opli-2016-0007/html?lang=en https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opli-2016-000... I think the Pirahã may only use directions relative to the river