Michael Stevens

by the brain to it's projected onto wherever they removed the nerves from, but it doesn't last forever.

That's right, your brain works it out.

Your brain remains plastic in so many ways your whole life.

It's changeable and it'll eventually fade away and it'll go, ah, these nerves are now next to these other nerves that are in the leg, so I'm going to project those feelings to the leg area from now on.

But in that case, you're switching your sensory inputs from yourself to yourself.

You're just changing the where on yourself it is.

It always still feels like you.

But if suddenly I was feeling everything that touched you, Hannah, it would be a trippy experience.

But I think there would still be a me there experiencing these signals going, what the heck?

This is really trippy.

But I would still be there as me, Michael Stevens, wondering what the heck is this about?

Yeah, I actually got to meet Dr. Moran, who does these experiments in a minefield episode, and we ran this on some other science YouTubers.

You try to predict the readiness potentials of their neurons so that you know that they're about to push the button.

And as it turns out, that happens before their conscious awareness that I'm going to push it.

Mm-hmm.

light the buttons up, turn the button red, meaning don't push me, before they're aware that they were about to, and they become paralyzed.

So, I mean, this throws into question the entire notion of, is there a you?

We certainly act like there is.

We think to ourselves and we explain ourselves to others as though there is a little self that's riding along, manning the controls, but it does seem more like we are

There might not be a you, there's a you-ing that your brain does where it looks at what it's done and what's happening and it goes, oh, yes, yes, yes, that's what I meant to do.