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They get the effect by having a stimulus applied at the same time to both hands. If the real hand moves the fake hand moves as well in the same way. That's how you create rapport. If two people are in strong rapport and you hurt one of them, the other also feels hurt.
I don't think that's true. Any neurotypical person who has a decent level of empathy, should have experiences where they felt pain when another person got hurt.
I did. I also tried putting a less-than sign on each line as suggested elsewhere. I don't know what's going on with that.
This is too vague for me to make heads or tails of it, but in any event, some subjects actually mistook the rubber hand for their real hand. I also said that some subjects felt physical pain. This is not a matter of empathizing with the pain of something else. And we're talking about a table. I don't know anyone who's ever empathized with a table.
It sounds like this is just turning into a semantic argument about the definition of the word 'pain.' You know how you feel when you see someone else get a paper cut on their finger? That's not the kind of experience that I'm talking about. You know how your finger feels when you get a paper cut? That's the kind of experience that I'm talking about. You know how you feel when you trip and you're on your way to kiss the ground? That's the kind of anticipation that I'm talking about.
Do you actually have experience with this experiment and what it feels like or does your information come from the paper?
I have not been subjected to the experiment. Even if I were, I would most likely not feel physical pain because only a small selection of subjects did. I do not believe that the terms 'pain' and 'anticipation of pain' are contestable or capable of being confused with empathy. I'm tapping out because I don't believe that this conversation is productive.
While not having done this experiment in particular I do have experience in distinguishing a lot of the relevant qualia and what mimikry does for emotional transfer.
In a study they got 31/108 to feel pain when seeing images/clips.
That's a simple picture without any rapport building and more than the 20% in study you cited report feeling pain.