So now I actually think this idea is on to something brilliant. I have been diving into neuroscience lately and this sounds like an amazing experimental method.
It’s like non-surgically transplanting your eyes into your hips. Why do that? To further refine brain-body mapping.
We turn our head instinctively to aid vision. Once our brain realizes that visual input improves only when we move our hips, body awareness will shift significantly.
If a future VR is strong enough to embody us in another body — an animal, a conjured crazy creature, whatever — would we eventually “learn” it? Move around in it? Be it? I feel like the answer is yes.
I agree with this. But surely there has to be a limit. If we create an extremely complex body where its movement requires solving rhythmic problems based on changing prime numbers, or something like that, would we be able to do it? If we hook up the VR to a squirrel to control a human body, would it be able to do it?
meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
So now I actually think this idea is on to something brilliant. I have been diving into neuroscience lately and this sounds like an amazing experimental method.
It’s like non-surgically transplanting your eyes into your hips. Why do that? To further refine brain-body mapping.
We turn our head instinctively to aid vision. Once our brain realizes that visual input improves only when we move our hips, body awareness will shift significantly.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If a future VR is strong enough to embody us in another body — an animal, a conjured crazy creature, whatever — would we eventually “learn” it? Move around in it? Be it? I feel like the answer is yes.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
The body is the mind. Change your body, change your mind.
Just saying, polymorph spells are problematic.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I agree with this. But surely there has to be a limit. If we create an extremely complex body where its movement requires solving rhythmic problems based on changing prime numbers, or something like that, would we be able to do it? If we hook up the VR to a squirrel to control a human body, would it be able to do it?