[ExI] Flash of insight...

[Damien Broderick]

On 10/31/2010 4:44 PM, ablainey at aol.com wrote:

> considering the size of our skin and the massive level of sensory
> information it creates, its interesting that the I isn't more body centric.

I suspect it is more delocalized for expert gymnasts.

Also interesting that in NDE reports, many people claim to experience 
themselves as "floating above" their damaged bodies (although still 
"visuo"-centric, I gather). Susan Blackmore explains this as deriving 
from a wireframe model of body and surrounds that we supposedly build 
and keep current at an unconscious level; NDEs would then be a sort of 
imaginal transposition of one's constructed sense of location to a point 
*outside* the wireframe, or at least to a different  part of it beyond 
the body's boundaries.

Damien Broderick