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I mean, you are the doctor, but its not clear to me that you would need to feel them anywhere. If you lose an arm and have a phantom limb, do you feel the sensations at the stump? And if there was a phantom tail, Im not sure the participants could easily recognise it as such. Do people get phantom limbs for limbs they never had and not the mirror image either, and if yes how do they report about the experience?
Im not sure its the best representation of what the post is talking about. E.g. expecting hunchbacks to have dysphoria - this homunculus doesnt have a determined back hunchedness. And Im not sure how, say, my hand could be that would contradict it, short of missing a finger.
That seems like a reasonable possibility.
Oh you can definitely feel something where it doesn't exist, or you could feel a body part is different than it should be. I've had some "leg" pain induced by a pinched nerve and the probem was at the spine but the feeling of pain was "general" and felt impossible to locate where exactly on the whole leg the pain was coming from. But the pain was serious enough and actually felt as the whole leg, it made me writhe for a few seconds when it decided to pulsate its ugly head. The only solution was pain killers for a while.
Try wearing a ring for an extended period of time then remove it and touch with another finger of the same hand where the ring used to be. It's a strange feeling.
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