Here we report a perceptual illusion of body-swapping that addresses directly this issue. Manipulation of the visual perspective, in combination with the receipt of correlated multisensory information from the body was sufficient to trigger the illusion that another person's body or an artificial body was one's own.
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Body swap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A body swap is a storytelling device seen in a variety of fiction, most often in television shows and movies, in which two people (or beings) exchange minds and end up in each other's bodies. Altern...
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The illusion of body-swapping was created when the scientist touched the stomach of both with two sticks. The subject could then see that the mannequin's stomach was being touched while feeling (but not seeing) a similar sensation on his/her own stomach.
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The article “If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping” by the Swedish researchers Henrik Ehrsson and Valeria Petkova appears this week in PLoS ONE, and is ably summarized over at Neurophilosophy.
neuroanthropology.net/2008/12/02/body-swapping/ neuroanthropology.net/2008/12/02/body-swapping/
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In SGU, they have body swapping. How are we seperate from our bodies you ask? By leaving them entirely, that’s how. By picking up sticks and moving, wholesale. In the Stargate world, a consciousness is transferable, transmittable, duplicatable.
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There are other surgeons and scientists at work on replacing broken bits of the body. If swapping faces makes you feel queasy, how about giving birth from the same womb that carried you?
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/he... www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/future-surgery-body-swapping-405352.html