Do the actions we make playing video games become..

Do you believe that the actions or motions we make with our hands when we're playing video games become autonomic responses in the brain? Do you think we are fully conscious of what we are doing, or do you believe that on some level, we are melding our minds with the machine through our optical lobe?

 

i have no answer for this. all i can think of is .... yes.

 

Well i think you are right in both senses. I mean of course we are fully aware and conscious of what we are doing with our hands, but it's just a matter of how we are percieving it. We could get our consciousness inside the video game if that's how we are working our mind, because what we are seeing/thinking is what we believe.

 

After we got GTA IV I played it like crazy for a couple days and one night I had a GTA dream. I had to fight these guys and they all had red arrows over their heads and then I had to help some little kid who had a blue arrow. But in the dream I did everything by moving my fingers like on the controller. When I woke up my hands were in a position like I was holding a controller. Does that answer your question at all?

 

The fingers are mere extensions of our mind.

 

Kind of in the way that the information given in video games is so closely related to real life now. The things that happen in a video game aren't really thought out enough for some people to realize that there is a possibility of it being completely fake.

 

My boyfriend told me about an article where they've found that when you hold a pen, pencil, paint brushes, any kind of reaching device, your mind begins to believe that its an extention of your arm?
Here's the articles
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/hscout/2009/06/25/hscout628304.html
http://www.livescience.com/health/090622-tools-extension-body.html