"This is essentially a means of projecting yourself, a form of teleportation," said Dr Ehrsson.
To that end, he devised what he called the Favorite Toy, a simple means of projecting performance based on a player's age and most recent career trends.
The Formula One calendar has tilted definitively towards countries prepared to pay handsomely for its glitz, while a string of Middle East states have invested heavily in cascading tiers of sporting events as a means of projecting soft power.
For Beijing, cosying up to Britain guaranteed it an enthusiastic cheerleader within the EU and a gateway to the bloc, as well as a means of projecting Chinese power, influence and technology around the globe.
Alex Oliver of the institute says that axing the network would "cut off one of Australia's principal means of projecting its image, strengths and values to the world".The ABC now faces a conundrum.
Forward basing, the practice by superpowers most notably, the United States of establishing an enduring military presence in a foreign country as a means of projecting force and furthering national interests.
Indeed, Russia's real means of projecting power is not its armed forces, but its sale of cheap advanced weaponry to other countries.India, though growing fast, seems more interested in a strategic partnership with America rather than rivalry.
Despite this, Britain continued to invest in war – politically, technically and financially – as a means of projecting power and securing influence among key allies, and also, it seemed at times, in an attempt to impose order and a degree of familiarity upon a chaotic and unpredictable world.
Ever since the Pacific campaign of World War II, aircraft carriers have been the dominant means of projecting naval power.
