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Body Swap With A Mannequin
Science News | Submitted by: Waste 'Em All—God'll Sort 'Em Out
"People can experience the illusion that either a mannequin or another person’s body is their own body, says Valeria Petkova of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. She and Karolinska colleague Henrik Ehrsson call this reaction the body-swap illusion... Petkova and Ehrsson first confirmed that 16 male and 16 female volunteers experienced an illusory body-swap with a mannequin."
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From: gingerbrown [as in sh!t]
Date: 17-Nov-2008 21:14
I done did this when I was sixteen and Grandpaw fergot to take to take the dead hawg out of the mash pit before he ran off that last batch of moonshine. Yee haw, I is edumacated and didn't even know!
From: absintheredux
[Green Death]
Date: 18-Nov-2008 00:31
From: myrtle [theturtle] Date: 17-Nov-2008 19:30 why am I surprised how lame this was, oh I`m not. _____________________________________ It's fascinating to see the high degree of correlation between the lameness of an individual and what they perceive as lame.
From: absintheredux
[Green Death]
Date: 18-Nov-2008 00:43
Remember how weird it sounded that anorexics could look into the mirror and perceive themselves as "fat"? Incredible, they must be faking it! This opens the door to many possible quantitative studies on self-perception; it heralds a wide-open field of studies on the degree of confidence we can place on eyewitness accounts, etc. A few months ago, we had a fine article in here called "Our Brain the Liar". Much more to come I'm sure. Perception has too long been left in the hands of the psychologists, although its study had already been tackled by biophysics, a hard science, as early as in the '50s (Lettvin, McCullough, and Pitts MIT). But Myrtle and other sheeple will bleat "Laaaame".
From: inthebeginning [(It Was Real Good)]
Date: 18-Nov-2008 01:31
Absintheredux, Perception is the gathering of sense impressions from the environment. The proper study of Psychology is human perception and the emotional, mental, and sometimes physical reactions to the environment and how that reaction changes the human and causes the human to change his environment or adapt to it. This is a gargantuan task, especially when performed from within the human itself. The fact that Psychology has made any substantial progress in understandings of humans is a fact that should astonish. A "hard science" is generally defined as one in which valid measurements have been accomplished and have been instrumental in advancing the study of that science. A "soft science" such as Psychology, is sometimes ridiculed for lacking clearly measurable criteria. That lack is because of the subject matter itself, humans. Inherently "soft" and somewhat unpredictable. The "Body Swap" of the article is only another small tool in the understanding of the human mind and should advance minutely the ability to measure its potential. It may be a very long time before we are able to quantify ourselves... how does one count love and infinite possibility?
From: absintheredux
[Green Death]
Date: 18-Nov-2008 01:51
I the B.-- My field of research for the past 30 yrs or so has been involved with the biophysical study of perceptual mechanisms and I am well aware of the material. My problem is that I have no idea what point you're attempting to make. Unless it is that the human animal is a terribly complex critter, something which has been passed around for a few millenia. Nice flowery use of language, though. For a better and more nuanced differentiation between "hard" and "soft" science, try Thomas Kuhn.
From: jaybegood
[Sir Robin of D'Hood]
Date: 18-Nov-2008 12:17
Message from the bridge: Stardate 00659, the Holodeck program "Nude Cub Scout Troop Camping Adventure" has been deleted from the computer. Ensign Crusher report to the Captain's quarters.
From: inthebeginning [(It Was Real Good)]
Date: 18-Nov-2008 14:24
Absintheredux, I'm glad to hear that you finally got a job. Let's hope they keep you after the Xmas season. Thanks for pointing me to Kuhn. I just started reading "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." I'll let you know if he spelt all the words right. Thanks too for noticing my flowers. That was the only point. There was a young girl, Absintheredux Who started a talk with a schizo named Chucks She argued and cried with each of his heads 'Til finally she turned him into the Feds She regretted her snitch, but she had the last Yucks.
From: roaddog [pclynn]
Date: 18-Nov-2008 18:41
I can dig it. Pass the shrooms please.
From: piedmont
[Piedmont]
Date: 19-Nov-2008 09:39
Ok, guess I have to admit I'm a perv then. As I read I could imagine the sexual uses. ..wait perhaps not a perv. Let's call me a visionary.
Updated: 19-Nov-2008 22:42
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