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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 18 points 9 hours ago

And it's not even one creature or even type of creature. Look up rhizobium.

Tbf, as we learn more about our gut microbiomes, it turns out that humans are that way as well. Maybe that's why we have the thoughts in our heads vs. the feelings in our guts... (no that's actually not it at all, except... isn't it though?).

[-] DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 11 points 8 hours ago

I figure the feeling of being in your head is simply due to your eyeballs being located there. Now I want to put a 3d camera on my hips, and steam it to VR goggles.

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 12 points 8 hours ago

The hips do not lie. Ipso facto, you would be seeing ultimate truth.

It turns out that the meaning of life is at crotch level.

[-] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 4 points 7 hours ago
[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours 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.

@DoubleSpace@lemm.ee the best ideas start as jokes

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours 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.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Microphones and headphones too.

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