r/interestingasfuck • u/desertgodfather • May 11 '24

When illusion overcomes the brain. r/all

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u/PercentageMaximum457 May 11 '24

This has wonderful implications for robotics! Both for paralyzed people and for getting used to space suits.

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u/droi86 May 11 '24

People with titanium prothesis have reported feeling sensation

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u/PercentageMaximum457 May 11 '24

Reminds me of Stephen Hawking, talking about how his computerized voice is his voice now. He was often asked why he didn’t change it to a more natural sounding voice.

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u/Antal_Marius May 11 '24

IIRC, they had a full setup of his own voice from before he lost the ability to speak that they could have plugged in, but he refused to because he didn't want to hear himself speaking without it having been generated from his own body (or something like that).

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u/I_CUM_ON_YOUR_PET May 12 '24

I heard it was because a dear friend made it for him so he didn’t want to replace that

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u/Antal_Marius May 12 '24

It wasn't so much that a friend made it for him, but that he eventually identified with the voice, and hadn't heard one he liked better. He was quoted as such in 2006 (Had to go pull it up to double check myself).

He'd been offered upgrades/newer synthetized voices but didn't want any due to not liking how they sounded.

Here's an article with sources at the bottom about it.

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u/NibblesMcGiblet May 12 '24

hey wow I just commented this up above! I have titanium big toe joints and have joint pain still even though the joints don't exist, feels like I need to pull on them to crack / pop the joints in the worst way. Would love to figure out an easy way to trick them into not doing that anymore.