Mel Slater's Presence Blog  Thoughts about the concept of
presence in virtual reality - a place to write freely without
the constraints of academic publishing,and have some fun.  My
Photo   12 July, 2014  Visual-Tactile and Visual-Motor
Influences on Virtual Body Ownership                  15
February, 2014  The Presence of Your Distant Virtual Body  One
way to think about a body ownership illusion is that it arises
when the brain attempts to solve a contradiction between
different sensory modes, and chooses as a resolution the
simplest hypothesis that appears to explain what's happening.
For example, in the rubber hand illusion your real out-of-sight
hand feels tactile stimulation, while a visible rubber hand on
the table in front of you, and in a plausible position and
orientation, is seen to be touched. The felt touch and seen
touch are synchronous. So there is a contradiction between the
felt touch in one place and the seen touch in another. The
contradiction is resolved by going along with the hypothesis