ABSTRACT

Note that virtual realities do not fit easily into such models of the world as-perceived. Dualists and reductionists assume that experiences either have no location or extension, or are located and extended in the brain. However, in VR one appears to interact with a virtual world outside one’s body although there is no actual (corresponding) world there. That is, the VR world appears to have 3D location and extension outside one’s body in spite of the fact that it is entirely a phenomenal experience. The VR does not seem to be without location or extension, or to be ‘in the brain’.