As Moheb Costandi says, “Perception is not a passive process of merely seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting or smelling”. In fact it’s much weirder taking Alice In Wonderland Syndrome as an example. It’s like patients are hallucinating without assistance, and dismissed as harmless by physicians but Roberta Angheleanu reveals these perceptions can say a lot about consciousnesss and deserve further inquiry. In lighter news Ross Pomeroy looks back at This Chinese ‘Illness’ Causing Men To Think Their Penis Is Disappearing born not of a virus or bacteria, but the mind. Knowing that the radical cure for this malady makes a lot of sense and, unlike COVID, koro has been largely eradicated from red China. (CS)
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