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Your sense of where your body is can be hijacked in minutes

Stroke a rubber hand in view while hiding the real one, and the rubber one starts to feel like yours.

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With synchronised brushing of a visible rubber hand and the hidden real one, most people begin to feel ownership of the rubber hand within a couple of minutes – flinching when it is threatened. Body ownership turns out to be a running inference from sight and touch, not a fixed fact.

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