boosted by the burgeoning arsenal of neuroscience techniques. We learn that body and brain, intimately interconnected by sensory and motor pathways, ideally develop and function in register, employing modules and circuits, evolved over eons, and recruited in an improvised, accelerated fashion with the recent acquisition of complex social structures and language. Out of register (for example, in situations where there have been limb amputations, a severe impairment in sight or hearing, or in brain injury), one's human integrity can be devastated.
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