Octopuses fall for the rubber hand illusion just like us🐙

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First demonstrated in the late 1990s, the rubber hand illusion involves hiding a person’s real hand and placing a fake one on a table in front of them, then stroking both simultaneously. Later, it was found that other mammals, such as mice, can also be fooled by the same trick.

Now, Sumire Kawashima and Yuzuru Ikeda at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, have discovered that octopuses are also vulnerable to the illusion, suggesting they have a sense of body ownership similar to our own

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