Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences

Zothecula writes "New research demonstrates that triggering an out-of-body experience (OBE) could be as simple as getting a person to watch a video of themselves with their heartbeat projected onto it. According to the study, it's easy to trick the mind into thinking it belongs to an external body and manipulate a person's self-consciousness by externalizing the body's internal rhythms. The findings could lead to new treatments for people with perceptual disorders such as anorexia and could also help dieters too."

Comments

And the survival-selection hypothesis would be...?

[Empiric]

it's easy to trick the mind into thinking it belongs to an external body

I'll go ahead and read this as "consciousness is designed to remain functional with the associated body being arbitrary".

Sounds like direct intentional design of a functional, physically-reassignable (hence "resurrectable") soul to me.

Someone enlighten me on why this, being merely a "trick", would have evolutionary advantage such that all the neurological complexity required to remap perceptions to arbitrary point in space would naturally "emerge".