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Homuncular Flexibility: The Human Ability to Inhabit Nonhuman Avatars

ANDREA STEVENSON WON, JEREMY N. BAILENSON, and JARON LANIER

Abstract

This essay seeks to explicate an unorthodox idea that spans psychology, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and computer science called homuncular flexibility (HF). HF posits that the homunculus—the part of the cortex that maps movement and sensing of body parts—is capable of adapting to novel bodies, in particular bodies that have extra appendages or appendages capable of atypical movements. Evidence demonstrates neural plasticity in nature; for example, amputees experience cortical shifting such that their face receives extra attention in the brain after a limb is amputated. However, experiments such as the rubber hand illusion, in which people respond to rubber hands placed near their arms as if they were their actual hands, demonstrated that a person’s sense of their body can be adjusted to include external objects.

Source

used these models:

• Procedural pencil by Oscar
• Pen model by Oppovinewood
• Rubber duck by mStuff

10-11-2022 - updated the colours in the tile matching puzzle to be more colourblind friendly.

10-11-2022 - I've heard reports that the lights on game doesn't properly detect completion on some browsers. I can't reproduce it on edge, chrome, or firefox on windows, or chrome and firefox on linux. One person said that zooming in or out can fix it, so please try this. Worst case scenario, right click on the purple button and delete the element, this will reveal the clickable button underneath.

view hints/solutions

step 1:

hint

look for inconsistencies, and click on 'em!

solution

click the screw in the bottom left corner, then click the hole just below the "blackle mori 2022" line

step 2:

hint

turn on all the lights

solution

this is the classic lights out puzzle, except instead of turning off lights, you need to turn them on. you can follow this guide to solve the puzzle, just invert the light-on-edness of all the instructions.

step 3:

hint

once you solve the sudoku puzzle, consider where the numbers in the circled cells could go...

solution

completing the sudoku puzzle gives the code 61644, enter this into the combination lock on the top right

step 4:

hint

also called picross, nonograms can be tricky. try to get most of the left side done before moving onto the right

solution

this is how the nonogram will look when solved:

step 5:

hint

pretty much the same as step 3. try your best!

solution

completing the sudoku puzzle gives the code 94427

step 6:

hint

try to figure out which tiles have to go in the corners first. this will whittle down the possibilities for where the rest of the tiles can go.

solution

the completed tile matching puzzle looks like this:

this is amazing. I got stumped on the second stage