Category: Body
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I am not a robot. Because… (in a minute!)
If you were trying to convince another human that you yourself are also human, what would you say? Probably something about emotions, right? That might work – but other humans are more likely to believe your humanity if you talk about bodily functions. Specifically, the word ‘poop’. At least, that’s the finding from a study…
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Phantom reality… Affecting reality…
In breakthrough research led by neuroscientist Olaf Blanke and his team at EPFL, Switzerland, the scientists show that phantom body pain can be reduced in paraplegics by creating a bodily illusion with the help of virtual reality. The results are published in Neurology. “We managed to provoke an illusion: the illusion that the subject’s legs…
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I can see what I THINK!
Most people can see their body’s movement in the absence of light. (1) We know that senses feed our brain. We tend to (deliberately?) forget that the reverse process also applies.
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