Why can’t you pinpoint exactly where your organs are?

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If you’ve learnt human biology you know roughly where they are, but why can’t you say exactly where your liver is for example? Does the brain just not know?

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You can tell roughly where your limbs are from sensors that measure the stretch of your muscles. This sense is called [proprioception] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception).

There is no such thing for your organs so you can’t tell where they are. In the past, most people probably didn’t even know they had them.

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