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finished rough draft for touch
| author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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| date | Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:27:24 -0700 |
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| 731 - [[../src/cortex/video/magick4.clj][cortex.video.magick4]] | 731 - [[../src/cortex/video/magick4.clj][cortex.video.magick4]] |
| 732 - [[../src/cortex/video/magick5.clj][cortex.video.magick5]] | 732 - [[../src/cortex/video/magick5.clj][cortex.video.magick5]] |
| 733 #+html: <ul> <li> <a href="../org/touch.org">This org file</a> </li> </ul> | 733 #+html: <ul> <li> <a href="../org/touch.org">This org file</a> </li> </ul> |
| 734 - [[http://hg.bortreb.com ][source-repository]] | 734 - [[http://hg.bortreb.com ][source-repository]] |
| 735 | 735 |
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| 737 * Next | 736 * Next |
| 738 | 737 So far I've implemented simulated Vision, Hearing, and Touch, the most |
| 738 obvious and promiment senses that humans have. Smell and Taste shall | |
| 739 remain unimplemented for now. This accounts for the "five senses" that | |
| 740 feature so prominently in our lives. But humans have far more than the | |
| 741 five main senses. There are internal chemical senses, pain (which is | |
| 742 *not* the same as touch), heat sensitivity, and our sense of balance, | |
| 743 among others. One extra sense is so important that I must implement it | |
| 744 to have a hope of making creatures that can gracefully control their | |
| 745 own bodies. It is Proprioception which is the sense of the location | |
| 746 of each body part in relation to the other body parts. | |
| 747 | |
| 748 Close your eyes, and touch your nose with your right index finger. How | |
| 749 did you do it? You could not see your hand, and neither your hand nor | |
| 750 your nose could use the sense of touch to guide the path of your hand. | |
| 751 There are no sound cues, and Taste and Smell certainly don't provide | |
| 752 any help. You know where your hand is without your other senses | |
| 753 because of Proprioception. | |
| 754 | |
| 755 Onward to [[./proprioception.org][proprioception]]! | |
| 739 | 756 |
| 740 * COMMENT Code Generation | 757 * COMMENT Code Generation |
| 741 #+begin_src clojure :tangle ../src/cortex/touch.clj | 758 #+begin_src clojure :tangle ../src/cortex/touch.clj |
| 742 <<touch-header>> | 759 <<touch-header>> |
| 743 <<meta-data>> | 760 <<meta-data>> |