What’s it like to have 6 fully-developed, fully-formed, individually-controllable fingers on each hand? Just the thought gives a lot of people a bad case of “polydactyly envy”. Is such an individual privileged to enjoy a unique bodily experience that is beyond the imaginings of the rest of us?

Here are some of my musings on this subject -- possibly a bit lengthy, a bit technical, yet with many important details omitted, going into some fundamental aspects of the structure of the human nervous system. But I think all this does lead us to the beginnings of an answer to the question.