Dr. Eric Haseltine

which is a complete map of your body on your brain, one half each for both motor and sensory, right?

And so if you've ever taken a psychology book, you've seen this thing with huge lips and huge hands.

And so I talked about the body in that sense.

It's a neural incarnation of bodily sensation.

But I believe I was very limited now and I should have gone way beyond that because now we know that there's a ton of neurons in your body, in the peripheral nervous system, like in the gut nervous system and in the heart.

So when we say we feel in our gut, there could be learning and perception and emotion that

literally in your gut, not metaphorically.

Because think about where you feel emotions.

They are physical sensations, right?

Almost every emotion you have, you can map it onto a physical part of your body.

And that may be because that is literally where you're consciously experiencing it, not in your brain.

And so there's this thing called cellular cognition now.

where it turns out that you can classically condition plants and single-cell organisms, and you can take a planaria, cut it in half.

After you've trained it in a maze, it regrows the front half, where the back half had no neurons, and it now knows the maze even so.

It's what we call cellular cognition.

And so I now believe that when she says, you're talking to your back...

It's literal.

It's not metaphorical.

That your back has a constituency, as it were.

That it represents the cells in your back muscle and your back.