{"id":172,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:17:31","slug":"ic-and-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"INSULAR CORTEX and BODILY AWARENESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Recent imaging results have identified the insular cortex as a central player in the experience of bodily self-awareness, like:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">the awareness that our arms and legs belong to us and not to someone else. Though this sounds silly, some stroke patients with damage in this area are convinced their limb(s) do not belong to them and may even attribute them to other people;<\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">triggering one\u2019s sense of disgust to the sight of contamination, smells, and mutilation, even when just imagining the experience;<\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">pleasurable memories\u00a0creating\u00a0urges for drugs, even\u00a0if actual drug levels in the body remain constant;<\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">the degree of preference for a pleasurable sensation;<\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">pain when looking at images of painful events, and feeling them as if it is happening in one\u2019s own body;<\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">feeling sensations of a past experience, despite the fact that the energetic residue of that experience that was stored in the body was fully released.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><a href=\"?p=173\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read\u00a0 more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 192px; height: 147px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/4-2011-pics\/Octo-anger.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent imaging results have identified the insular cortex as a central player in the experience of bodily self-awareness, like: the awareness that our arms and legs belong to us and not to someone else. Though this sounds silly, some stroke patients with damage in this area are convinced their limb(s) do not belong to them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9419,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/9419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}