dueling with dualism

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"Ongoing projects question whether the perceived body can be shrunk to the size of a Barbie doll or if the brain can accept a body of a different sex. Other seemingly bizarre recent projects have included giving participants the illusion of shaking hands with themselves, having their stomachs slashed with a kitchen knife and seeing themselves from behind. All were designed to trick participants into a false perception of owning another body." — Benjamin Skuse, Cosmos
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"[...] watching a rubber hand being stroked synchronously with one's own unseen hand causes the rubber hand to be attributed to one's own body, to 'feel like it's my hand'[...]. This illusion does not occur when the rubber hand is stroked asynchronously with respect to the participant's own hand." — Oxford Journals - Cerebral Cortex
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