How does your brain know where your limbs are without looking at them?

Question

As an example, if you or someone else randomly moves your arms you know exactly where they are relative to other parts of your body, how does the brain know this?

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Answer 1

There’s a book, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” by Oliver Sacks, MD, with stories of various neurological disorders, that has a story about a woman who lost her proprioception.