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[dirtyrich09]

I'm an undergraduate who just became interested in neuroscience this month, so please excuse any errors in my "explanation" and I welcome any corrections. I'm reading a book about brain plasticity - previously thought to be impossible, but fairly recently proven as, to some extent, a reality of the nature of the brain. In short and over-simplistic summary, phantom libs have been explained as such: because the brain map interprets sensory information of your arms, or example, in close proximity to where it interprets sensory information from the face, your brain can actually experience physical feelings of the amputated limb when the skin of the face is stimulated. Pain of the phantom limb can also be neurologically explained with similar methods, though is more complicated (even in the simplest of terms) and I will not go into it here ("frozen" neural circuits and the like).

I personally find this to be really fascinating - it's like neuroscience that meets quantum mechanics and philosophy as they pertain to what we consider to be "real."

I'm looking for articles, books, etc on similar findings. Any help? Thanks a bunch.