Unless there's information they aren't sharing in the article, all they've shown is that the brain will link sight perceptions with similar body perceptions. ie. the camera showed a hand about to touch & then the real body reported a touch & the two got linked as one event. *shrugs* not even eggheads - just people trying to prove a pre-decided point. Linking is what brain do - it's basically a switchbox or like a complex telephone exchange.
Now if they had done a bit of work to convince the subjects that the camera location was them, & then shown a hand moving to touch & the subjects felt a touch (ie. without a touch on the real body) that would be significant. This is just the hot/cold trick expanded out.
(hot/cold) 3 bowls of water, one hot, one cold, one at room temperature; hand in hot then neutral, the brain says the luke warm one is freezing. Hand in cold the luke warm, brain says it's hot, even though the temp of the room temp one never changed.
It's easy to fool the brain. It is, after all, getting extremely limited information through a set of filters - alter the filters in any way & the brain has no choice but to do strange things.
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