Author Topic: 'The Brain Senses Touch beyond the Body'  (Read 1026 times)


Steve H

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Re: 'The Brain Senses Touch beyond the Body'
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2019, 01:08:51 PM »
Making a mystery where none exists, if you ask me. If you hit the object with the far end of the tool, there's more torque than if you hit it with the near end, and the hand holding the tool can easily detect that.
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
Robert Macfarlane