Deep Field / case
Vestibular Patient
Loss of vestibular input breaks the reafference bargain between self-motion and world-motion. Visual and proprioceptive cues conflict; allocentric mapping strains. The specimen prices embodiment: a metabolically maintained agreement about whose motion is whose. Rehabilitation is not metaphor but the costly restoration of a coupling that ordinary upright life had been continuously paying for.
Payment currency
CMRO2 and conscious compensatory effort
Cessation signature
Correct channels fail to compose into place; scene becomes picture-like
Local graph
Typed relations
Source anchors
- Ch09 - The Embodied Present