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The authors of Infinite Reality make several strong claims about the potentials of virtual reality. One
of the strongest claims is that virtual reality will allow an unprecedented degree of control over experience,
especially identity formation. (Think of the last short paper you wrote.) And yet, Andy Clark asserts that the “I”
(the soul, the mind) is wholly integrated with, is an inextricable part of its surroundings and setting (recall the
image of a mangrove swamp), which means that the physical body is (and remains) integral to the formation of
the “I.” What do you think? Whose account of subjective experience (or of identity formation, although identity