Why should we think she can now feel her missing hand? Her missing hand is, well, missing. Perhaps she feels her artificial hand. The second paragraph is better. She can feel some object with her artificial hand through her chest.A woman with an artificial arm has been given the sense of touch following a pioneering operation to reroute some of her nerves. Claudia Mitchell, 27, lost her left arm in a motorcycle accident three years ago, but can now feel her missing hand after having nerves from her lost limb rerouted to her chest. [emphasis mine]
Now, when she touches something with her artificial hand she can feel it through a device attached to her chest.
During a four-hour operation, surgeons moved nerves from her shoulder, which normally ferry signals from the hand to the brain, and redirected them to muscles in her chest area.
At least they didn't report she was feeling qualia.
Sense of touch restored for woman with bionic arm | Science | The Guardian
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