Why does your brain know where your hands are but not your internal organs like liver and kidneys etc?

Question

A co-workers son asked him this, and I got a braincrash when I heard it.

EDIT: Co-workers son asked if the brain keeps the location (of internal organs) a secret from you?

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It’s in your best interest for your brain to limit the information it gives to the conscious active part of your mind to just include information it can consciously act upon. There’s nothing to be gained from knowing where your liver or kidneys are, so there was no evolutionary incentive to grow an awareness of it. If anything being aware of all the automated processes going on inside of you would be a distraction.