Immunity to error through misidentification and the bodily illusion experiment

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a paradigm of experiment which, we believe, is of interest both in psychology and philosophy. There the subject wears an HMD (head-mount display), and a camera is set up at the upper corner of the room, in which the subject is. As a result, the subject observes his own body through the HMD. We will mainly focus on the philosophical relevance of this experiment, especially to the thesis of so-called 'immunity to error through mis- identification relative to the first-person pronoun'. We will argue that one exper- iment conducted in this setting, which we call the bodily illusion experiment, provides a counterexample to that thesis.