How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?

Re:How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part? by m463 on Sunday June 02, 2024 @03:29AM (#40552146)

When I was young, my first real experience with this was seeing a black and white spiral optical illusion in a museum. I stared at it for a bit, and then my brain adjusted and when I looked away, it affected what I looked at.

I think my realization was that my brain didn't just do simple things, it did complex in many dimensions to adapt and fix things.

The same thing goes with your foot, and it goes way deeper than we realize. It's probably not that one muscle, it is ALL the muscles in the area working together to help you walk. I wouldn't be surprised if there are 50 muscles involved.

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Re:How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part? by hnbad on Sunday June 02, 2024 @03:46AM (#40552227)

The brain seems to do 90% error correction. Once you learn how human vision actually works it seems miraculous that it works at all.

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Re:How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part? by OJFord on Sunday June 02, 2024 @08:33AM (#40553591)

That's true of so many things isn't? At my graduation (EE as well as CS, is why it's relevant) I said to my dad that I'm still completely baffled by the simplest AM radio, forget WiFi.

I understand it (especially then), but it's just crazy isn't it, that it actually works? Discovering/theorising and then prototyping some of this fundamental stuff and seeing that for the first time must have been absolutely incredible.

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Re:How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part? by cromulent on Sunday June 02, 2024 @01:45PM (#40555926)

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