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[–] Djehngo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

I was going to say you have a static sense of what orientation you are in, e.g. you can tell standing up Vs lying on your front/back/side without relying on other senses and that feels different to the sensation of moving...

But thinking about it I guess the orientation sense is just detecting acceleration due to gravity?