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The fascinating science behind phantom limbs - Joshua W. Pate

The fascinating science behind phantom limbs - Joshua W. Pate

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The vast majority of people whove lost a limb can still feel it not as a memory or vague shape, but in complete lifelike detail. They can flex their phantom fingers and sometimes even feel the chafe of a watch band or the throb of an ingrown toenail. What causes these phantom limb sensations? Joshua W. Pate explains how the brain reacts to a missing limb. Lesson by Joshua W. Pate, directed by Kozmonot Animation Studio
Date: 2020-08-22

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Why are we here, just to suffer. Every night, I feel my leg, and my arm, even my fingers. The body I've lost, the comrades I've lost won't stop hurting. It's like they're all still there.
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Brain: Send a signal to the index finger to point.
Nerve: On it.
Brain: Is it done?
Nerve: Its not there, I got blocked at the elbow joint.
Brain: Oh.
Try again.

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To me amputation is so much more morbid, dark, and scary than death just the thought of it bothers me but as always my curiosity takes me over and I watch things like this anyway
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Blind, in the deepest night
Reaching out, grasping for a fleeting memory
All the thoughts, keep piercing This broken mine
I fall, but i'm still standing motionless

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For some reason, this really reminds me of that scene in Evangelion 2. 0, where Unit 01 goes berserk and grows that AT-Field arm.
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