Exteroception

The insular cortex is responsible for interoception.

Exteroception is your awareness of the outside world's sight, sound, touch.

Interoception is your conscious awareness of your body's internal state.

The insular cortex acts as a translator.

But as we've seen and we've talked about in previous podcasts, interoception is that sensory awareness of self from the skin in, is the way I like to put it.

Exteroception is all those senses that allow us connection from the skin out.

Mm-hmm.

And that's exteroception.