[Verse 1] Electrodes kiss the angular gyrus, right-side line, Blanke flips the switch in two thousand two — Nature's headline, The patient floats above her own reclining frame, An out-of-body echo calling out her name, Sense of self slips sideways, drifting through the room — Ein Geist outside the body, wo bin ich, in diesem Raum? [Chorus] TPJ, c'est où je suis, Wo bin ich — tell me whose mind owns the view, Angular gyrus bending body and belief, Temporo-parietal junction, self and other interweave, C'est toi ou moi, the border keeps shifting through, TPJ, map my body, now map you. [Verse 2] Two thousand five, the full-body trick returns, Blanke tilts the camera, watches where location turns, Ionta's two thousand eleven, published bold in Neuron's air, First-person perspective lives right there, Stroke the back, project it forward, feel your "I" relocate — Temporo-parietal junction holds the self-location gate. [Chorus] TPJ, c'est où je suis, Wo bin ich — tell me whose mind owns the view, Angular gyrus bending body and belief, Temporo-parietal junction, self and other interweave, C'est toi ou moi, the border keeps shifting through, TPJ, map my body, now map you. [Verse 3] Saxe and Kanwisher, two thousand three, found it clean — Right TPJ lights only when you guess what others mean, False belief, the marble hidden, swapped behind her back, Lesion the left side — Samson's patients lose the track, Nat Neurosci, two thousand four, the proof arrived precise: Damage that hemisphere, theory of mind pays the price. [Verse 4] Mars carved the junction with connectivity's fine blade, Two thousand twelve, Cerebral Cortex, the map remade — Dorsal cluster dating IPL, the vigilant eye, Ventral cluster courting default mode, the social sky, Macaque brains lack that ventral wiring fully grown — Dis donc, this social patch might be ours alone. [Bridge] Circuit breaker, Corbetta's call, two thousand eight, Right TPJ reorients, resets the attentional gate, Mitchell says the mentalizing map and attention overlap, Krall, two thousand fifteen, runs the meta-analysis lap, Domain-general? Spezialisiert? Niemand weiß es genau — Un débat sans fin, mon ami, c'est comme ça. [Chorus] TPJ, c'est où je suis, Wo bin ich — tell me whose mind owns the view, Angular gyrus bending body and belief, Temporo-parietal junction, self and other interweave, C'est toi ou moi, the border keeps shifting through, TPJ, map my body, now map you. [Outro] From area five, the body's own address, Through intraparietal streams that calibrate and guess, Up to the junction where the bodily becomes another's mind, Temporo-parietal — c'est la frontière you'll always find, Wo bin ich, who are you, the question never ends, TPJ, le pont between oneself and friends.
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