Tag: movement
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Walking with your hands… (and feet, ok) Living. Dying.
We humans walk with our feet. This is true, but not entirely. Walking, as part of locomotion, is a coordinated whole-body movement that involves both the arms and legs. Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have identified different subpopulations of neurons in the spinal…
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Akinetopsia. Time stopping. Feeling the Cosmos. [Time as a prerequisite for Existence]
It started as a headache, but soon became much stranger. Simon Baker entered the bathroom to see if a warm shower could ease his pain. “I looked up at the shower head, and it was as if the water droplets had stopped in mid-air”, he says. “They came into hard focus rapidly, over the course…
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Relative moves. Impossible moves. Amazing moves.
Move is relative. Does your train move? Or the one next to your train? Are you running? Or is the whole Earth moving under your feet? You put your keys in the pocket. Or do you… move the Earth, the people on it, the solar system, the galaxy, the whole universe so as to make…
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Brain for… walking!
Our brain could have evolved just for… walking. [1] A new theory proposes that our beloved organ, what we believe makes us unique, was created just for controlling movement. If this is true, then two possibilities exist: The other “high level” activities that constitute consciousness could just be a side-effect or… a result of something…
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