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turnip_burrito t1_ja01qzg wrote

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What defines the spatial borders of a responsive system?

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Surur t1_ja0585j wrote

It that important? The spatial borders are the reach of your control.

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turnip_burrito t1_ja0v8bq wrote

But for a human being, the spatial borders are smaller than our reach of control.

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Surur t1_ja1iwc1 wrote

Is it really. When we control equipment we seem to adopt it's borders pretty well. We can slip into roles such as a person who controls a country pretty easily.

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turnip_burrito t1_ja1mps9 wrote

No, what I mean is you only feel stuff directly touching your nervous system. That's what I mean by spatial borders.

The spatial borders of what a person experiences are their nervous system. Why? And furthermore, what is the equivalent for a light bulb or a piece of carpet?

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Surur t1_ja1p6jo wrote

But that is not true. As I explained, we are easily able to expand our spatial borders to include machines we control.

And that question is not reasonable to ask for something which has only two states like a light switch or none like a carpet

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turnip_burrito t1_ja1pqh4 wrote

That's not quite what I mean by spatial borders. I don't mean stuff you are causally connected to. I mean something different. I'm not going to go into any more detail though since it's a bit boring.

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