What the body misses or looses, the brain produces, in the form of hallucinations. This, Oliver Sacks demonstrated in his latest book ‘Musicophilia’. The integrative activity of the human brain entertains dynamic systems that generate perceptions, images and hallucinations that are automatic, uncontrollable and non-pathological. Strong phantom sensations deliver precise data, even long after a limb is missing. Today, they even feed the willed phantom movements of the bionic industry.
What returns with the specter, is no longer the visionary future haunted by the past, but a kind of present that no longer has to be in order to exist. In this vast field of hallucination, doubles of originally disabled selves are invited to look around and check, if there is something ‘for them’ to explore and exploit.
As observers, they can will a new kind of history, extra-human, re-invented. Connected to some terminal neural mind, they can bring about the reality of their choice in unaccountable number of ways.
Never mind, here, the ‘real’ only springs into existence when and as long as it is observed.
