{"id":202,"date":"2022-08-16T15:21:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2022-08-16T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:50:48","slug":"5-body-and-mind","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/chapters\/5-body-and-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"5: Body and Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-249\" src=\"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/chap-05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"106\" \/>In the past mind and body were seen as separate: the brain like a distant general sending orders to corporeal troops.\u00a0 However, it is virtually impossible to describe one without the other.\u00a0 We sense ourselves as well as the outside world, so that posture and facial expression affects feelings as well as being caused by them.\u00a0 We see that simple activities, such as lifting a cup, are the result of a closed-loop control cycle of action and sensing.\u00a0 Fitts\u2019 Law is well know in HCI as a \u2018law\u2019 of human motor system, but it is in fact a cybernetic law of the extended human body \u2013 indeed, from the first stone tools to the modern computer, humans we have always been cyborgs.\u00a0 Apparently internal plans and intentions turn out to be intermixed with physical sensing and action, so that some regard our very mind as embodied in the world.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Keywords:<\/span> Fitts\u2019 Law, Extended body, Cyborg, Embodied cognition, Sensing, Embodied thinking, Proprioception<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past mind and body were seen as separate: the brain like a distant general sending orders to corporeal troops.\u00a0 However, it is virtually impossible to describe one without the other.\u00a0 We sense ourselves as well as the outside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":192,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-202","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions\/250"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}