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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Something, something, biology.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

@[email protected] the best ideas start as jokes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The body is the mind. Change your body, change your mind.

Just saying, polymorph spells are problematic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days 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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

People have experimented with that sort of thing. Here's a DIY for going into 3rd person mode using a camera on a stick and some electronics in a backpack. Bit of googling also finds me body swap experiments, but nothing on a crotch perspective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Awesome resource, thank you for posting it.

Here’s one reason why a hip level perspective would be so helpful as a neuroscience tool. It is an ethical and reversible experimental intervention that could add real experimental power to functional brain-body mapping.

Combine the perspective shift induced by the virtual rearrangement of sensory input with fNIRS for cortical imaging, perhaps before, during and after the hip-view experience. A company focused on near infrared cortical imaging products

I am certain a proper neuroscientist could come up with even better and more detailed questions to ask using the method.

Something like this could even be used as a therapy tool for trauma, perhaps, once the impact of the perspective shifts were understood well. A common trauma response is dissociation and common therapy methods include ways to help people reconnect with their whole bodies again.

[–] explodicle 4 points 5 days ago

Microphones and headphones too.