From Cleo Abram.

In the 1990s, scientists ran an experiment on people using a fake rubber hand. They found that they could trick your brain into believing that the rubber hand was part of your body…

It’s a fun party trick, but it also teaches us about how our brains evolved.

Since then researchers have been able to replicate the experiment on other mammals and recently… an octopus.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.05.017

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