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The Natural Curve

            the natural curve

"How is it that I usually seem to be in my body? Partially, because perceiving things from eye-level is the most efficient way of making use of the information coming in from our predominant sense of sight. Blind people feel they are in their fingertips when reading braille. Dogs probably are more inclined to feel they are inside their noses. Exactly where we are depends on how we are perceiving.

It also concerns what we are able to control. It is the ability to control events that gives rise to a sense of self. The technology of virtual reality mimics this. Virtual reality is a computer-generated world in which you can move about as though it were real. The computer detects your movements so that the scenery changes realistically as you walk around and move your head and body. Special gloves that you wear detect the movements of your hands, so that the virtual hand appears to be your hand. And, to you, it seems real. It could be blue, green, or pitted with glowing nodules but it will still seem like you. Virtual reality gives you an illusory sense of control, so it creates a you that feels real, when it is no more than information being processed by a computer. The position where I seems to be depends on the viewpoint that takes in the information and the parts of the world that can be directly controlled."

- Susan Blackmore
Dying to Live

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Taken on: May 10, 2009

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