Dr. Sanjay Gupta
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That's the thing.
When I started writing this book, I thought I was pretty smart on this because, you know, 25 years I've been taking care of patients with pain and I learned a lot.
And, you know, it's a fine line trying to navigate how to teach people about pain versus just treating their pain.
Your brain is now deciding this is a more significant injury.
Got it.
That's right.
Okay.
Pain is an alarm system in many ways.
Yep.
And deciding then what your experience is going to be.
Got it.
Well, they're touching your hand in the back as well.
So they're basically trying to get you to correlate the dummy hand with your hand.
Okay.
Okay, and so then all of a sudden, the dummy hand starts to feel like your hand.
And all of a sudden, they take a hammer and they smash the hand.
It's not even your hand.
Because the mirror neurons are firing.
That's right.
So, you know, the idea that you can, you're tricking the brain, obviously, but the point is not to trick the brain.