There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us

Re:There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us by rincebrain on Saturday February 22, 2020 @12:50PM (#22392252)

There was an interesting experiment about this, and about the effects when you stopped wearing it (people's internal navigation systems took a serious hit). [1]

[1] - https://www.wired.com/2007/04/esp/

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Re:There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us by _Microft on Saturday February 22, 2020 @01:29PM (#22392470)

I knew about the feelSpace belt already but this was a very interesting read and a lot broader than I had expected it to be. Do you want to submit the article here? You would have my upvote right away.

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Re:There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us by _Microft on Saturday February 22, 2020 @04:04PM (#22393315)

I have submitted it myself now. I hope you don't mind.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22393300

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Re:There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us by filoeleven on Sunday February 23, 2020 @04:33AM (#22395956)

Oof, I don’t know if I like the idea of losing my existing navigation abilities. Maybe I won’t mess with that! I wonder if it would be useful for people with Developmental Topographical Disorientation though:

> she could only take jobs that allowed her to commute entirely along straight roads (even curvature threw her off), and after-work happy hours at new bars were out of the question. Others with the condition say it’s like being a perpetual tourist in places that should be familiar. People with DTD can still theoretically understand verbal directions, read maps, and use GPS, though with difficulty; Roseman said that trying to understand GPS directions while driving is too overwhelming for her.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/05/when-the-...

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