Jaron Lanier experimented about transform the self to virtual bodies and he found that “people could quickly learn to inhabit strange and different bodies and still interact with the virtual world”. Lanier curious about how weird the body could get before the mind would become disoriented so he called “homuncular flexibility” was that people can learn to inhabit and naturally control virtual bodies that are quite different from their own.
These observations about the brain’s flexibility attributing surrogate bodies or body parts to the self. Research over the past two decades has confirmed that the brain is remarkably plastic with respect to body representation. The rubber hand illusion