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Phantom Limb, Electric Ghost: When Prosthetics Process Emotion

2030-11-27

An amputee with a neural-linked prosthetic arm reports feeling emotions through the prosthetic — not from the arm, but routed through it, as if the brain is using the AI-mediated limb as an additional emotional processing channel. Neuroscientists did not predict this.

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