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My experience is that my poles are very proprioceptive, after years of use.
I'm glad that your poles have been effective for you. I use mine at times too. However, I think that your claim to have extended your nervous system into your poles is some of that medical drivel we've been warned about. If you have extended your nervous system into your poles, we'll expect you to appear in the next Transformers movie.
Dale B. Dalrymple
Ha! It's funny you would describe it that way, because that IS how it feels to me. I can tell in the dark, whether I'm in contact with ground, or rock. I can tell if the rock is flat, or curves off. I can create a mental image of a stream bottom that I cannot see, by what I can feel. I wonder if there is sound involved, like the cane provides for a blind person? I'm not aware, but I bet there is a subliminal effect.
In surgery, we use probes all the time to feel where we cannot see. This works very well, and seems to me to proprioceptive in nature.
