Nice party tricks, but I was kind of hoping for some philosophical or scientific revelation at the end of the article. Unfortunately, it never came... :-(
That's a very interesting article, although I couldn't get the illusions to feel as the article predicted as I tried them while reading the article. The brain's map of the body is the source of "phantom pain,"<p><a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/phantom-pain/DS00444" rel="nofollow">http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/phantom-pain/DS00444</a><p>of course, and thus it is medically interesting to find out more about how the brain maps sensations to body parts.