DefinitionsProprioceptive; ProprioceptionProprioceptive; Proprioception The proprioceptive senses are, specifically, sensory nerve terminals (proprioceptors) found in muscles, tendons, and joint capsules, which give information concerning movements and position of the body. Vis.:
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If one were to close the eyes and extend an arm out to the side, for instance, and then to the front there is a sensing, or perception, of where the hand is located in space in relation to the body itself ... especially when the muscles of the hand are flexed. The sense of movement (the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body) is called kinaesthesia and the inability to sense movement is called kinanaesthesia. Sometimes the receptors in the labyrinth (the vestibular sense organ), or inner ear, are also considered proprioceptors. The sense of balance, or equilibrium, is stimulated by gravity, rotation, and acceleration. Vis.:
Again, if one were to close the eyes one will find there is a sensing, or perception, of being oriented in space (of space all around including behind the body) ... and this has as much to do with balance, acceleration and/or rotation in space, orientation in a gravity field (if there be one) as it has to do with the proprioceptive senses proper in the muscles, tendons, and joints. The proprioceptive senses are part of the somatic sensory system (somaesthesis/ somaesthesia) which is the faculty of bodily perception (sensory systems associated with the body) and includes skin senses (cutaneous receptors for hot/cold, pressure, physical pleasure/ pain, for example) and the internal organs sensors (cardiovascular or circulatory receptors for blood pressure, heart rate, and carbon dioxide and digestive tract receptors for hunger and thirst, for instance) as well as the equilibrium sense, or sense of balance, already mentioned. Thus proprioception is the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body, and its parts, because of the proprioceptors in the muscles, tendons, and joint capsules (in combination with the sense of balance, acceleration and/or rotation in space, and orientation in a gravitational field, of the inner ear or vestibular organ). In other words: the sense of being here, in space, as a body is not just because of sight (visual perception), sound (auditory perception), touch (cutaneous perception), smell (olfactory perception), and taste (gustatory perception). The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one.
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