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Some years ago I played a car game with Virtual Reality (VR). I noticed that it felt like the car was a part of me. I wonder if the brain can experience if clo
by arnejenssen 9mo ago
Some years ago I played a car game with Virtual Reality (VR). I noticed that it felt like the car was a part of me.
I wonder if the brain can experience if clothing, tools, bikes are part of the body?
- woliveirajr 9mo agoA cell phone vibrating in your pocket: in the first days, after some days of use, many people would feel it vibrating as a muscle sensation, not as external thing vibrating.
- roywiggins 9mo agoI experience "having something in the copy/paste buffer" as a distinct sensation in my Ctrl-V hand.
- euroderf 9mo agoItchy Trigger Finger: Cyber Edition
- pixl97 9mo agoWhich can lead to phantom ringing syndrome.
- Sharlin 9mo agoYes, I think it’s a well-known phenomenon that the brain extends its concept of the body to tools, vehicles etc that you learn to use well.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 9mo agoYes. My rifle feels like an "extension" of my body. Also, when I drive my car I will focus on how the car feels like an extension and the scale of objects feels different. Like if I am walking down a long street it feels big, in a car it feels small.
- roywiggins 9mo agoI actually think drivers routinely experience this, which explains a lot of road rage.
- jtr1 9mo agoYes. I think the concept you’re describing is proprioception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception
- euroderf 9mo agoProprioception could be the basis for a thinking man's version of the sci-fi trope "exchanging bodies".
- euroderf 9mo agoSome overlap with ideas of Marshall McLuhan. Media as extensions of man.