X-Message-Number: 12827 From: "Geoff Lee" <> Subject: Whole Body Versus Neuro Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 19:18:08 -0800 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01BF36B0.A3FEEC00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" This week in Canberra, I am attending University lectures on simulation, which are being presented by two American guest lecturers. Today, one of them talked about haptic perception. An example of a baby was given. It was stated that in the first six or seven months of life, a baby does not realize that he/she has arms, hands, legs, feet, lungs, heart etc. In fact the baby only thinks that he/she is a brain. At six months plus, the baby realizes that he/she owns hands etc, often at the start of this period, vigorously waving the hands in front of face to see what he/she owns. This, amongst other things, could be interpreted as meaning that we should be comfortable in thinking of ourselves as only a brain (temporarily) as we have done it once before. I myself have no particular opinions on the Whole Body versus Neuro debate. ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01BF36B0.A3FEEC00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <P><FONT face=Arial>This week in Canberra, I am attending University lectures on simulation, which are being presented by two American guest lecturers. Today, one of them talked about haptic perception. An example of a baby was given. It was stated that in the first six or seven months of life, a baby does not realize that he/she has arms, hands, legs, feet, lungs, heart etc. In fact the baby only thinks that he/she is a brain. At six months plus, the baby realizes that he/she owns hands etc, often at the start of this period, vigorously waving the hands in front of face to see what he/she owns. This, amongst other things, could be interpreted as meaning that we should be comfortable in thinking of ourselves as only a brain (temporarily) as we have done it once before. </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial>I myself have no particular opinions on the Whole Body versus Neuro debate.</FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01BF36B0.A3FEEC00-- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12827