This TEDx speaker, a clinical neuroscientist, would wager I might believe that pain in my own body is actually taking place in someone else's body... under certain circumstances...
That experiment, though very different, brought to mind the different-yet-interchangeable experiences of bodies I've drawn in my own psychotopology fieldwork.
Cool, thanks. What stands out for me in his description of the experiment is the way it demonstrates the exquisite precision and broad repertoire available in our capacity to generate virtual materiality. I would even go so far as to say that our own day-to-day experience of "embodiment" is not a direct "perception" of the body but a generated facsimile of the body using the most useful materiality for serving how we habitually inhabit that body. And that, as the speaker suggested in reporting his research on pain, can go far awry.
This TEDx speaker, a clinical neuroscientist, would wager I might believe that pain in my own body is actually taking place in someone else's body... under certain circumstances...
The last 2.5 minutes of a funny TEDx:
https://youtu.be/gwd-wLdIHjs?t=710
That experiment, though very different, brought to mind the different-yet-interchangeable experiences of bodies I've drawn in my own psychotopology fieldwork.
Cool, thanks. What stands out for me in his description of the experiment is the way it demonstrates the exquisite precision and broad repertoire available in our capacity to generate virtual materiality. I would even go so far as to say that our own day-to-day experience of "embodiment" is not a direct "perception" of the body but a generated facsimile of the body using the most useful materiality for serving how we habitually inhabit that body. And that, as the speaker suggested in reporting his research on pain, can go far awry.