The Sixth Sense (not ESP silly)

"To sense where the various parts of our body are, we sometimes rely on signals that originate in our brain rather than in our fingers or toes, a new study shows."
"...Things changed when their forearm and hand were paralyzed by a restriction of blood flow and anaesthetized by injection. Volunteers then could not say where their hand had been moved to when it was re-positioned by an experimenter. But they still felt they could move their hand when directed to do so. In fact they were adamant that they had moved their hand even when it was prevented from moving..."
Interesting article, helps explain the phantom limb syndrome. This post reminded me of a great article title: Botvinick, M. & Cohen, J. D. (1998). Rubber hand 'feels' what eyes see. Nature,391, 756.