patient of his, stimulated in a similar part of the brain – the angular gyrus, at the junction of the temporal and parietal lobes – reported a similar experience: ‘I see myself lying in bed, from above, but I only see my legs.’ The common factor in cases like these is unusual activity in brain regions that deal with vestibular input (the vestibular system deals with the sense of balance) and that are also involved in multisensory integration. It seems that when normal activity in these systems becomes disrupted, the brain can reach an unusual ‘best guess’ about the location of its first-person
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