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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (9 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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (5 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.

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    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

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  • [+] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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.

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