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For Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences, Shaun Gallagher & Daniel Schmickin (eds.). Springer. 10/18/08 IW—“the man who lost his body”1 David McNeill, Liesbet Quaeghebeur & Susan Duncan Introduction Mr. Ian Waterman, sometimes referred to as ‘IW’, suffered at age 19 a sudden, total deafferentation of his body from the neck down—the near total loss of all the touch, proprioception, and limb spatial position senses that tell you, without looking, where your body is and what it is doing. The loss followed a never-diagnosed fever that is…

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