Phantom limb, how does it work?

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U may have been thought the wrong thing, but from what I have heard, your nerves keep sending signals to your brains about the situation, problem is, if there are no nerves left because they got cut of, where the >!fuck!< do those signals come from?

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The nerve isn’t a single wire, it’s a series of connections that lead from the limb to the brain. If part of the chain ie removed with the limb, the remainder can still send signals to the brain. The brain has associated the signal from this chain as belonging to the end of the limb, so it acts as if the pain originated at the (missing) limb.

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