Furtherman
07-14-2004, 08:18 AM
For some background, I recently read two facinating articles on how your brain percieves the world.
One involved how objects can become part of your peripersonal space. Your brain instinctly records the space around you at arms length as "your" space. It's that feeling you get when someone is behind you, next to you, and too close.
When you use a tool, a bat, or even an automobile, the brain expands your space to include these objects. They almost become a part of you.
Finally, researchers say that large machines can become part of the body map. The lines between parking spaces appear closer together from a Humvee than from a Miata, Dr. Graziano said. An automobile is automatically absorbed into peripersonal space. And that helps explain why a minor dent in a fender can provoke a major blowup. The driver's body space has been harmed.
I wonder if this "space" could be classified into cyperspace.
For those of you who are on here everyday, many times a day: If Ronfez.net were to disappear, of course we would be upset, but would you feel like a part of your "space" was missing? Perhaps go through a withdrawl of some sorts?
OK, its a bit of a deep question, but I thought it might provoke a better discussion.
I ask because I am only on here during the work week, never on weekends. Recently I've been thinking, on weekends, that I wish I could "get on the board". I don't think that is necessarily a good thing... but maybe I'm just missing a part of a space that I'm on so much for 5 days.
Anyway, read the articles for some good learning, if nothing else.
When the Brain Says, 'Don't Get Too Close' (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/13/science/13body.html)
How the brain feels false limbs (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3856051.stm)
You could argue that the bodily self is an illusion being constructed in the brain.
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One involved how objects can become part of your peripersonal space. Your brain instinctly records the space around you at arms length as "your" space. It's that feeling you get when someone is behind you, next to you, and too close.
When you use a tool, a bat, or even an automobile, the brain expands your space to include these objects. They almost become a part of you.
Finally, researchers say that large machines can become part of the body map. The lines between parking spaces appear closer together from a Humvee than from a Miata, Dr. Graziano said. An automobile is automatically absorbed into peripersonal space. And that helps explain why a minor dent in a fender can provoke a major blowup. The driver's body space has been harmed.
I wonder if this "space" could be classified into cyperspace.
For those of you who are on here everyday, many times a day: If Ronfez.net were to disappear, of course we would be upset, but would you feel like a part of your "space" was missing? Perhaps go through a withdrawl of some sorts?
OK, its a bit of a deep question, but I thought it might provoke a better discussion.
I ask because I am only on here during the work week, never on weekends. Recently I've been thinking, on weekends, that I wish I could "get on the board". I don't think that is necessarily a good thing... but maybe I'm just missing a part of a space that I'm on so much for 5 days.
Anyway, read the articles for some good learning, if nothing else.
When the Brain Says, 'Don't Get Too Close' (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/13/science/13body.html)
How the brain feels false limbs (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3856051.stm)
You could argue that the bodily self is an illusion being constructed in the brain.
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...with thanks to JustJon