marketrent OP t1_izr444u wrote
Reply to comment by DoomGoober in Molecular markers of cells involved in the sixth sense — proprioception, the unconscious sense of body position and movement by marketrent
>DoomGoober
>Odd that the article says propioception is unconscious. Other papers say there are both conscious and unconscious forms of proprioception:
>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18851800/
>J Surg Orthop Adv. 2008 Fall.
An excerpt from Somatosensory 1, last revised December 2013:
>UNCONSCIOUS "PROPRIOCEPTION":
>The sensory information discussed above, which is useful for consciousness, is also useful for unconscious functional control of movement. Therefore:
>• The primary afferent axon, upon entering the spinal cord, will have branches (collaterals) to share the sensory signal with "local reflex" neurons, and
>• To share the signal with the cerebellum (works at unconscious level) by a synapse with spinal cord neurons, whose axons form spinocerebellar tracts.
>http://anat403.class.uic.edu/Lectures/lecture6_09.htm
chirodiesel t1_izsc7nq wrote
It's both. You don't have to be consciously aware of it for it to be engaged, but you can become aware of it more keenly. This is basically what any form of refined motor movement is like a ballerina or a martial artist.
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