Finished the 3rd chapter and started reading the the chapter

• Author gave some more examples on the different types of phantom limbs
  • Even one where a girl was able to do arithmetics with phantom fingers
• “Pain is just an illusion”
  • Shown with some examples where they synced 2 different things like
    • A person tapping the other persons nose in front, in random patterns, makes them believe that either their nose is 3 feet long, or the other person’s nose is their nose
• In the next chapter he started talking about Zombie in the brain
  • This happened with someone who lost their eyesight and are not able to recognize even number of fingers, but are able to grab things and do things subsconsiously
    • This leads to a question on how does our brain renders image
    • The light enteres to our eyes and forms and inverted image in retina which is then processed in brain, the fun part is that brain cant technically “see” the image, it decodes it somehow
      • As author says it understands symbolic patterns and derives things from it
    • If it was able to see it directly, a static image should always appear the same, but this contradicts when we see an outlined cube — sometimes it faces upwards and sometimes downwards
      • This says that the brain has a different way of parsing the images, and the author calls it perception.