{"id":811,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"out-of-body-self?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"Out of body Self?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Out of body Self ?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">An MRI scanner test showed that a brain region called the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) is behaving differently when people said they were drifting outside their bodies. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"443\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/outof%20body.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The TPJ shares a common trait with other brain regions that researchers believe are associated with body illusions: it helps to integrate visual, tactile and proprioceptive senses with the signals from the inner ear that give us our sense of balance and spatial orientation. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The brain&#8217;s ability to integrate various sensory stimuli appears to play a key role in locating the self in the body.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Philosopher Thomas Metzinger states that understanding how the brain performs this trick is the first step to understanding how the brain puts together our autobiographical self &ndash; the sense we have of ourselves as entities that exist from a remembered past to an imagined future.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">&quot;The test manipulates low-level dimensions of the self: self-location and self-identification.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The feeling of being in a body is perhaps the most basic facet of self-consciousness. It could be the foundation on which more complex aspects of the self are built. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=526\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of body Self ? An MRI scanner test showed that a brain region called the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) is behaving differently when people said they were drifting outside their bodies. 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