Comments on: Video Ergo Sum

Video Ergo Sum

homunculus — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:31:50 -0800

Virtual Out-of-Body Experience. Using two procedures to deliberately scramble a person's visual and tactile senses, neuroscientists are able to induce "out-of-body" experiences in people. The effect is the same as the 'rubber hand illusion', but extends the effect to the whole body instead of just one limb (you can try the hand illusion for yourself).

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:38:12 -0800

That's pretty cool. Thanks for this. The table trick is also a great date trick.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:42:01 -0800

A man who went blind reports that he can still "see" his hand when he passes it across what would be his peripheral vision. I get that same illusion late at night with my eyes closed. Glad I'm not crazy.

By: Mr_Zero

Mr_Zero — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:49:28 -0800

Really neat. Cool post.

By: redteam

redteam — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:54:53 -0800

I WANT!

By: Avenger

Avenger — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:24:10 -0800

I'm writing this post from..... dun dun dunnnnnnnn BEYOND THE GRAVE!

By: homunculus

homunculus — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:52:17 -0800

Your secrets are still available to us. Muahahahaha!

By: PsyDev

PsyDev — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:01:31 -0800

OK I feel a little gyped by the slightly misleading blurb. While these are interesting I don't know that they "induce "out-of-body" experiences in people." If you wanted to do that, you'd give them DMT.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:11:20 -0800

Indeed (spoiler for Blueberry/Renegade).

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:01:33 -0800

Gah. New Scientist says it's down for maintenance today.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:50:16 -0800

Here's another article about the experiments from Slate.

By: subtle_squid

subtle_squid — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:42:45 -0800

that experiment seems to be set up exactly like this real world avatar suit. Which it seems is probably far more disconcerting to wear than I had previously imagined.