Proof of "awareness hands" - sensing beyond body

[Arnfinn]

By tricking the brain, scientists found that the physical senses were transfered to rubber hands even though the subject were consciously aware of that the hand was not their own (artificial).

It's not so hard to fool your sense of touch

Most of us are pretty confident in our body ownership. We see appendages emerging from our shoulders and think: These are my arms. That multiple-digit tool at the end of my arm is my hand. I need to trim my nails. And so on. The awareness we have of our body position in space is called proprioception. But science is good at probing the fragile superstructure of things we take for granted.
 
It turns out that proprioceptive cues can be fooled easily.

Read more at...

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0501/resources_who.html

How I like my awareness hands....

[Eol007]

Hi,

Welcome to the forum, a thanks for posting the link! An interesting little article indeed.

Best,


Stephen