New Yorker: Are we already living in virtual reality?

New Yorker: Are we already living in virtual reality? A fascinating long read about how VR may prove to be a materially different medium: “virtual re-embodiment” could drastically affect how we perceive ourselves and the reality around us. We create and use mental models of the world around us, this is easy to comprehend; that our concept of ourselves is equally a mental model, just entirely transparent to us, is much more difficult to grasp.

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