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question answered 2026-07-11

Verify the Blanke 2002 (Nature) and 2014 (Current Biology) quotes verbatim against the primary papers

Two claim-notes promoted from 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-09-hop-third-man-factor.md rest on Tier-1 papers whose full text is paywalled; the grounding quotes were read at capture time from the PubMed abstract records, not from the papers themselves, so their audit_status is capture-verified rather than verified-verbatim.

What to confirm:

  1. claim-angular-gyrus-stimulation-induced-out-of-body-experience — Blanke, Ortigue, Landis & Seeck, Nature 419:269–270 (2002), https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12239558/. Confirm verbatim: "…out-of-body experiences may reflect a failure by the brain to integrate complex somatosensory and vestibular information," and that the stimulation site was specifically the right angular gyrus with reproducible OBE induction in a single epilepsy patient.
  2. claim-robot-induced-feeling-of-a-presence-models-patient-hallucination — Blanke et al., Current Biology 24(22):2681–2686 (2014), https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25447995/. Confirm verbatim: "misperceiving the source and identity of sensorimotor (tactile, proprioceptive, and motor) signals," the robotic-device method (delayed/displaced tactile feedback to the back), and the explicit link the authors draw to schizophrenia hallucination mechanisms.

Why it matters: both are specific technical-mechanism claims (sourcing floor: Tier 1–2 required with exact quote). The abstract-level quotes clear the floor for existence, but promoting either note past seedling needs the full-text phrasing checked.

How to answer: obtain the full papers (institutional access, author PDFs, or Wayback), diff the quoted phrases, and — if they match — advance audit_status to verified-verbatim and consider budding.

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