According to Sapolsky, what happens happens in the following order. Well, this is a little rare earth metal magnet of great strength. And maybe that would be good to come from Jonathan.Well, Ian and I were walking through Oxford having done some groundbreaking experiment or whatever. © 2020 KCRW All Rights Reserved. I go to the Blake High School.Isn't the science.

And the following morning, I went to get up and out of bed and collapsed against a radiator. All of a sudden, I could feel like I had a -- about a five-pound bass on my line, and he was tugging. Inspired by Season 2, Episode 4 where pilots who lose consciousness suffer out-of-body experiences while flying fighter jets. And in fact, your typical army surgeon was basically graded on how quickly they could do an amputation.It was one of the first wars where we really had doctors being aggressive in terms of taking off limbs.Like I said, that photo got us thinking. But because putting the headphones over the top of my head, I can't see exactly where the headphones are in relation to the rest of me. "So maybe, thought Dr. Ramachandran, maybe this patient got so frustrated trying to move his real arm, that at some point ...After a few months or a year, the paralysis got learned by the brain, stamped into the circuitry of the brain. And Ian suddenly stumbled, and I'd never seen him stumble ever before.
But we began to realize at Luke that in the eight weeks of training period that I was there, we lost nine pilots.And most of them for running into the ground or running into each other in the air and that sort of thing. Wait. What's the -- what do you call it?Oh, I thought it was going to be one of those cultural moments where you guys call it something else.No, not quite. ]Okay, final checklist. First, light bounces off Tommy's corpse and enters my eyes.Okay, it goes up some nerve from your eyes and into one part of the brain which turfs it onto the next part.A couple of steps down, it gets into what's called your visual cortex which turns the dots into lines and lines into shapes. And that's an awful lot of pilots to lose just in training.Okay, fast forward many years. Remember when we were having a dinner right after we got engaged, and we went to the restaurant and I was waiting for you and I made the reservation and ...Tamar, that was in the Carter Administration. And by then already your stomach is heading towards your throat, your throat's in your mouth or whatever the cliche is.So as I'm standing there in Tommy's apartment looking at this figure on the ground, before I even know what I'm looking at, before I am consciously aware that Tommy is dead, my body already knows.That's exactly the punchline. Stories of people whose brains and bodies have lost each other. First, the brain has to issue the command.Tongue Station, Tongue Station. I said, "What's gone?" So what do we know about phantom limbs? I don't know that I was on a magic carpet, but I sure wasn't having to walk. "Pilots are generally not New Age kind of guys, but at least 40 of them in Whinnery's study did report what he just described: having an out-of-body experience. I honest to God don't know where the hell I am. Radiolab.org or something like that?If you would like to email us, and we do like to get email, the address is radiolab@wnyc.org. It's more basic than that. And each time he tugged I would pull back. Push it all the way up. Style. Many things to learn. It was his left arm. Ramachandran is a neuroscientist at the University of California in San Diego, author of many books, including, which is where you can find out all about that mirror experiment.Next up, let's scale it up a bit.