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Vladimir_Nesov comments on Are You Anosognosic? - Less Wrong
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Very low, because I can (and just did, to make sure) easily contrive situations where the visible present is determined by the recent past presence of two arms and where I would have been forced to strain credulity if I were justifying a negative result. In this case, the experiment was dropping two things at once causing two other objects to roll and meet in the middle (and not on one side, indicating an asymmetric drop).
Of course, it's absolutely inconceivable that, knowing what you expected, you turned toward the point where they met...
So extend the causal chain a little. After a certain number of consequences-of-consequences, it can't be a trick of the eye, not in an integrated and causal world, you would have to have a fully convincing daylight hallucination or be faced with explaining a negative result.
Someone with anosognosia would just launch into a contrived explanation. So a positive result is as conclusive a clean bill of health as any analysis using human senses.