Your Brain Invents Pain. Here's Why.
Stubbing your toe feels like the pain is entirely in your foot. But the reality is far stranger... the agonising sensation you experience is actually a highly complex, constructed illusion, invented in real-time by your brain. In this episode of The Rest Is Science, Professor Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens (VSauce)…
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