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your brain's daily proof that meat can feel the universe touching it
means A physical or mental feeling produced by stimulation of the senses or the mind, or alternatively a person, event, or thing that causes widespread excited interest.
from From Latin 'sensatio,' built on 'sensus' (feeling, perception) and the verb 'sentire' (to feel, to perceive) — the same root that gives us 'sense,' 'sentiment,' and 'sentient.' It entered English through Medieval Latin and Old French around the 1600s, first meaning a bodily perception. The 'thing that causes a stir' meaning — a hit show, a scandal, an overnight star — came later, when something so striking it lit up everyone's nerves earned the same word.
- phantom limbs
- amputees still feel hands that no longer exist
- two-point test
- fingertips beat backs at locating touch tenfold
- referred pain
- heart attacks ache in your left arm instead
- pain-free people
- some are born unable to feel any pain
planck length — smallest measurable distance in physics: 1.616 × 10^-35 meters, below which quantum effects dominate
synesthesia — neurological condition where stimulating one sense triggers another, like hearing colors or tasting words
phantom limb pain — amputees experiencing pain in limbs that no longer exist, documented in 50-80% of amputation cases