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Phantom Limbs & Synesthesia
In Light Sonata, Baxter uses new understandings about phantom limbs and synesthesia to help Charlie rethink Rupert’s extraordinary symptoms of madness. In the presentation above, Ramachandran, once included in Time Magazine’s list of the world’s top 100 most influential people, describes how new revelations about three symptoms—Capgras’ Syndrome, phantom limbs, and synesthesia—are shaking up our understanding of ourselves.