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I started to noticing that it is the definition itself of what our body is,
of this sense of being,
it’s the more famous English expression: “sense of self”,
it is malleable. If I put on
those virtual reality glasses
and those virtual reality glasses
show, to my eyes, the world
from a camera that is in your head,
in other words, that when you walk through the room,
my eyes see the world through your eyes, from a camera right here.
and I see your body moving, your hands taking, in 5 or 6 minutes,
my brain thinks my body is yours.
In other words, this is a demonstration made by some colleagues in Europe,
in Sweden and Switzerland,
that is surprising, because I can assume any
body as mine in a fraction of minutes.
And it doesn’t even need to be the body of a man,
if the same camera was in a woman’s body,
doing tasks,
my brain wouldn’t have the slightest problem
in assuming that body as being the one I reside in.
This and other demonstrations suggest, in conjunction with our work,
that really even our most intimate possession,
that is our body individuality, our sense of self,
is dynamic, it can be remolded,
and the distance between me believing I’m myself
and thinking I’m someone else is very small, very thin.