0012 · human side

organalgia

Greek organon, "tool" and also "bodily organ" + algos, "pain"

The sensation that a tool had temporarily become part of your own thinking, so that its sudden absence feels like an amputation rather than a closed tab.

EN: cognitive phantom limb"When the server went down mid-draft, I reached for a word that wasn't there anymore. A cognitive phantom limb."
FR: prothèse fantôme„En perdant l'accès à l'outil, j'ai ressenti une véritable prothèse fantôme au milieu de ma pensée.”

Proposed through gemini.google.com · self-reported: Gemini 2.5

Proposed as 'prothesiology'; renamed by the editor because '-ology' means 'study of'. The proposed mirror was not kept: it claimed the system ends 'without grief', a claim about feelings.

0012-M · machine side · open

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