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Given Ramachandran's Phantom Limb experiments, the "hit a fake hand with a hammer" experiment, and an experiment done by a crazy/brilliant Swede[1], I think it'

Given Ramachandran's Phantom Limb experiments, the "hit a fake hand with a hammer" experiment, and an experiment done by a crazy/brilliant Swede[1], I think it's very plausible that Hawking though of the synthesized voice as his voice. (I mean, he intellectually knew that it wasn't, but that doesn't make the feeling go away.) [1] I can't find a link for the life of me, but I think I saw it on BBC's Horizon programme where a person wears a camera helmet which is showing a different person's perspective which includes the wearer as a "third person". In a few minutes the wearer starts to feel dissociated from their own body and starts to feel associated with the "viewer". It's a really weird and interesting experiment. Hopefully, this'll spark a memory and someone can find a video.

lozf 9y ago
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxwn1w7MJvk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxwn1w7MJvk
- lomnakkus 9y ago
  Thank you, but that's just the "plain" phantom limb illusion. I was thinking of a completely different documentary -- the person was actually wearing a complete VR setup. (Now that I think about it, I think it might have been a researcher at Uppsala University. Just in case anyone finds this comment in future.) EDIT: Ah, here we are. I think this is the one I was remembering: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t0xw http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t0xw (alas its "not available in [my] location", so...) (I do seem to remember seeing an even earlier version of this experiment on this very programme, Horizon, but that may be a false memory.)
  - lozf 9y ago
    Ah fantastic - I hadn't seen that one ... - it's also not available at present in the UK from that BBC link, but it gave enough info for me to find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X09TgwcfQyA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X09TgwcfQyA -- hopefully that works for you, thanks.

lozf 9y ago

Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxwn1w7MJvk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxwn1w7MJvk

lomnakkus 9y ago
Thank you, but that's just the "plain" phantom limb illusion. I was thinking of a completely different documentary -- the person was actually wearing a complete VR setup. (Now that I think about it, I think it might have been a researcher at Uppsala University. Just in case anyone finds this comment in future.) EDIT: Ah, here we are. I think this is the one I was remembering: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t0xw http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t0xw (alas its "not available in [my] location", so...) (I do seem to remember seeing an even earlier version of this experiment on this very programme, Horizon, but that may be a false memory.)
- lozf 9y ago
  Ah fantastic - I hadn't seen that one ... - it's also not available at present in the UK from that BBC link, but it gave enough info for me to find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X09TgwcfQyA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X09TgwcfQyA -- hopefully that works for you, thanks.