system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What is a phantom vibrate?

For those unfamiliar with the term, a phantom vibrate is when you think you felt your phone vibrate in your pocket, but It didn't.

Does it have any relation to when amputees think they feel their amputated limbs?
gpt
Your brain thrives on patterns.  If something is close to a pattern that your brain recognizes strongly, your brain will force it to match that pattern.  Tihs is why you can raed senteencs wehre the wodrs are mxied up.  Your brain has been trained to recognize the pattern of your phone vibrating, so if some motion of your pants is close enough to the phone vibration, your brain will fill in the gaps and complete the perception.

In artificial intelligence, this is known as content-addressable memory, which is just a fancy way of saying that your brain will try to force a sensory state to a known pattern instead of perceiving it "raw".