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In the “rubber hand illusion,” the participant sees a displaced fake hand being touched congruently with her unseen real hand. This seems to invoke inference of an “illusory” common cause for visual, tactile, and proprioceptive sensations; as evident from a perceived embodiment of the fake hand and the perception of one’s unseen hand location closer toward the position of the fake hand—the so-named “proprioceptive drift.” Curiously, participants may sometimes move their hand in the direction of the fake hand (Asai, 2015). While this could easily be explained as participants actively trying to align the real and fake hands to experience a stronger illusion, they are not aware of these movements (cf. Abdulkarim and Ehrsson, 2018). So there may be better explanation for this observation than that participants were “cheating.” In their recent article, Lanillos et al. (2021) show that the unintentional execution of arm movement forces during a virtual reality based version of the rubber hand illusion—which the authors call “active drift”—can be reproduced by a computational model based on the active inference framework.