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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Because the parts of your senses concerned with tracking the location of your body parts are more focused on your limbs/head (which could wind up oriented any which way relative to your torso) than your organs (which pretty much sit in one place and mind their own business, unless something has gone horribly wrong). Much like how a lot of internal processes are “involuntary”, with the brain keeping them running without you needing to think about it, the unconscious mind doesn’t bother passing a lot of information from the internal organs to the conscious mind unless something is out of order. For the most part, it doesn’t need to, since the number of “day to day” tasks that require precise knowledge of the location of your own liver are extremely slim.
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