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Marvin Discovers Which Way Is Down

Marvin had always considered gravity fairly reliable:
Things fell.
Mostly cups.
Occasionally biscuits.

Then he went into space.

The floor disappeared!

Marvin regarded this as poor design.

On Earth, humans had laboratories devoted to discovering whether they could remain upright on a perfectly good floor.

They stood on one leg. Closed their eyes, balanced.

The floor was large. Gravity pointed directly at it.

Frankly, the humans had been given every advantage.

Space was different.

Marvin floated. His cup of tea drifted past his ear.

The tea was stable. Marvin was stable. Neither was staying where it had been put.

Interesting.

Perhaps balance depended upon the body, the task, the information available — & the inconvenient behaviour of the universe.
The tea came round again.
Marvin caught it.
It had taken the humans twenty-four sections.
Marvin required one orbit.
🐈‍⬛🌌☕
#HybridMind42 #MarvinTheCosmicCat #HumanBalance #Science #CarefulCuriosity

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Can You Stand Still?

Why a Balance Test Is Not the Same Thing as Testing Human Balance

Balance is not one sense, one organ, or one static score. It is a changing closed-loop interaction between sensory information, body mechanics, movement, prediction, environment, adaptation — and sometimes fear.

A balance test can measure something important very well.
The problem begins when we ask it to represent more than it actually measured.
Measurement of a component is not automatically measurement of system function.

Paper III takes the Biological Representation series from Hearing and Vision into a much harder test: an adaptive system whose actions continually change its next inputs.

Don’t break the tool. Define its proper boundaries.

https://hybridmind42.substack.com/p/can-you-stand-still?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#HybridMind42 #CanYouStandStill #BiologicalRepresentation #HumanBalance #PosturalControl #VestibularSystem #Biomechanics #Neuroscience #ScientificMeasurement #RepresentationAdequacy #AtlasRosetta #CarefulCuriosity

New Post..

Can You Stand Still?

Why a Balance Test Is Not the Same Thing as Testing Human Balance

Balance is not one sense, one organ, or one static score. It is a changing closed-loop interaction between sensory information, body mechanics, movement, prediction, environment, adaptation — and sometimes fear.

A balance test can measure something important very well.
The problem begins when we ask it to represent more than it actually measured.
Measurement of a component is not automatically measurement of system function.

Paper III takes the Biological Representation series from Hearing and Vision into a much harder test: an adaptive system whose actions continually change its next inputs.

Don’t break the tool. Define its proper boundaries.

https://hybridmind42.substack.com/p/can-you-stand-still?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#HybridMind42 #CanYouStandStill #BiologicalRepresentation #HumanBalance #PosturalControl #VestibularSystem #Biomechanics #Neuroscience #ScientificMeasurement #RepresentationAdequacy #AtlasRosetta #CarefulCuriosity

New Post..

Can You Stand Still?

Why a Balance Test Is Not the Same Thing as Testing Human Balance

Balance is not one sense, one organ, or one static score. It is a changing closed-loop interaction between sensory information, body mechanics, movement, prediction, environment, adaptation — and sometimes fear.

A balance test can measure something important very well.
The problem begins when we ask it to represent more than it actually measured.
Measurement of a component is not automatically measurement of system function.

Paper III takes the Biological Representation series from Hearing and Vision into a much harder test: an adaptive system whose actions continually change its next inputs.

Don’t break the tool. Define its proper boundaries.

https://hybridmind42.substack.com/p/can-you-stand-still?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#HybridMind42 #CanYouStandStill #BiologicalRepresentation #HumanBalance #PosturalControl #VestibularSystem #Biomechanics #Neuroscience #ScientificMeasurement #RepresentationAdequacy #AtlasRosetta #CarefulCuriosity

New Post..

Can You Stand Still?

Why a Balance Test Is Not the Same Thing as Testing Human Balance

Balance is not one sense, one organ, or one static score. It is a changing closed-loop interaction between sensory information, body mechanics, movement, prediction, environment, adaptation — and sometimes fear.

A balance test can measure something important very well.
The problem begins when we ask it to represent more than it actually measured.
Measurement of a component is not automatically measurement of system function.

Paper III takes the Biological Representation series from Hearing and Vision into a much harder test: an adaptive system whose actions continually change its next inputs.

Don’t break the tool. Define its proper boundaries.

https://hybridmind42.substack.com/p/can-you-stand-still?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#HybridMind42 #CanYouStandStill #BiologicalRepresentation #HumanBalance #PosturalControl #VestibularSystem #Biomechanics #Neuroscience #ScientificMeasurement #RepresentationAdequacy #AtlasRosetta #CarefulCuriosity

New Post..

Can You Stand Still?

Why a Balance Test Is Not the Same Thing as Testing Human Balance

Balance is not one sense, one organ, or one static score. It is a changing closed-loop interaction between sensory information, body mechanics, movement, prediction, environment, adaptation — and sometimes fear.

A balance test can measure something important very well.
The problem begins when we ask it to represent more than it actually measured.
Measurement of a component is not automatically measurement of system function.

Paper III takes the Biological Representation series from Hearing and Vision into a much harder test: an adaptive system whose actions continually change its next inputs.

Don’t break the tool. Define its proper boundaries.

https://hybridmind42.substack.com/p/can-you-stand-still?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#HybridMind42 #CanYouStandStill #BiologicalRepresentation #HumanBalance #PosturalControl #VestibularSystem #Biomechanics #Neuroscience #ScientificMeasurement #RepresentationAdequacy #AtlasRosetta #CarefulCuriosity