Not going to name names, but myself and a group of colleagues are part of what is meant to be an 'international' society. They haven't held a conference or symposium outside of the east coast of the US for the past three years, and none of us have felt comfortable enough to attend.

My neuroscience background would probably compel me to write something based on free-will and the various experimentation people have done to determine whether 'Tu dois' really is a fundamental, deterministic law of the universe.

Taken further, this argument suggests that the perception of virtual worlds is not so different than the perception of the 'real' world, meaning that virtual environments are not mere simulation - they are reality at the moment of perception as far as the brain is concerned

If this is the case, then VR research provides a radical avenue by which researchers can investigate facets of perceptual consciousness, including psychiatric disorders involving reality perception such as DPDR

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In this piece, we argue that mechanistically and conceptually, presence and reality are actually identical - relying on the same integrative theoretical models, psychophysical mechanisms and neural architecture.

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'Presence' is a term used by researchers utilising VR methodologies to describe how present one feels within a virtual environment, whereas 'reality' used by researchers in cognitive science is a term used to describe our ability to discern real from false phenomena

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