Your Brain Thinks Tools Are Part of Your Body
June 29th, 2009
Interesting new paper titled “Tool-use induces morphological updating of the body schema“, summarized in this Discover blog post: “using a tool for even a brief amount of time caused volunteers to update their body schema, and to consider the tool a part of their bodies.” The effect is subtle, but measurable. Question: how many software tools have this effect?
Heidegger did this first!
Really? What experiments did he run?
Well, I have an Emacs pinky. Does that count?
Greg. Just because the scientific method is a useful tool doesn’t mean it is the only tool. And yes, this is a retread something Heidegger explored years ago. Though it is always nice to see science catching up.