KhizooologyPhantoms in the Brain
The brain builds the body you experience.
Big Idea
Ramachandran and Blakeslee use unusual neurological cases to explore how the brain constructs bodily experience and explanations of the self.
A Limb Still Present
People may feel a missing limb, showing that body experience is not a direct inventory of current body parts.
Maps Can Change
The authors investigate how changing sensory signals can affect representations of the body.
Seeing a Different Signal
Mirror experiments explore whether visual feedback can alter some phantom-limb experiences.
- These cases are not a universal treatment promise.
Missing Part of the World
Neglect after brain injury can leave a person unaware of information on one side.
Explaining the Gaps
Some patients supply explanations that preserve a coherent story despite conflicting evidence.
Clues, Not Final Answers
Striking cases can reveal hidden processes without settling every theory about consciousness.
Khizooo Take
Separate what a patient experienced, what an experiment changed, and what the authors infer from it.
Remember
Your felt body is also a brain-made model.