People born without limbs nonetheless have a phantom sense of those limbs they have never experienced; this internal sense is generated from an organized field rather than external experience.

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Iain McGilchrist

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one is the Striking fact that people who are born without limbs nonetheless have the sense of the limbs they've never had them but nonetheless they they have an internal sense of those Limbs

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Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversationDr Iain McGilchrist
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:27:29 PM

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