Holy Dopplegangers, Patwoman!

Read this.

Now I find this both disturbing and intriguing. Basically (in case you don’t want to expend the effort to click the link) these scientist did a “body switch experiment.” Only, it was really more of a perceived body switch than an actual one.

Probably everyone has done this exact same experiment in jr. high science class. You put one arm where you can’t see it, and then there is a fake arm where you can see it. Then someone strokes the fake arm at the same time someone touches the real arm and your brain is tricked into thinking the fake arm is the real one.

Only, these scientists did this experiment with the whole body and a rubber mannequin. And the subjects were still fooled. Even female subjects were tricked into recognizing a male mannequin as their body.

Curiously, it didn’t work when the researchers tried to make the subjects believe they were, for example, a box.

I honestly think that would work on me, though. I am famous for not recognizing my own reflection (In, for example, a mirrored wall at a department store. Not, you know, in my bathroom mirror.) Famous to the point of pathetic comedy.

I wonder what the researchers will do with these results, though? What practical use could this have? Maybe it’s just me, but the only applications I can think of apply to the porno industry.