Functional sufficiency in VR: achieving non-corporeal embodiment.
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2026 Malcolm Wright, Olivia Petit, Alexander Schnack
This article provides a novel functionalist account of embodiment in immersive virtual environments, grounded in a formal model of cognition, supported by past empirical evidence, and offering a testable framework for predicting when virtual experiences will produce cognitive and emotional effects. Our approach complements existing work on telepresence and subjective experience by applying the...