Our Brain Is a Reality Engine: The Embodiment Illusion

Send us Fan Mail Why do we wince when a stranger stubs their toe? New neuroscience research suggests the answer lies deeper than simple empathy: the visual cortex — long assumed to be purely about "seeing" — actually contains hidden maps of our own bodies, meaning vision and touch were never as separate as we've long assumed. In this episode of Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy, we trace that discovery through a genuinely fascinating arc of research: We start with groundbreaking connective...