The author of this paper discusses the theme of the "simulated body", that is the sense of "being there” in a body that is not one's own, or that does not exist in the way one perceives it. He addresses this issue by comparing Immersive Virtual Reality technology, the phenomenological approach, and Gerald Edelman's theory of Neural Darwinism. Virtual Reality has been used to throw light on some phenomena that cannot be studied experimentally in real life, and the results of its simulations enrich the phenomenological discourse on the lived body. Virtual “Reality” seems to replicate—at least in part—the simulation mechanisms of our mind, thus favoring developments in the field of philosophy of mind.

本文的作者讨论了“模拟身体”的主题，即在一个不属于自己的身体中“存在”的感觉，或者以人们感知的方式不存在。他通过以下方式解决了这个问题比较沉浸式虚拟现实技术、现象学方法和杰拉尔德·埃德尔曼的神经达尔文主义理论。虚拟的“现实”似乎至少部分地复制了我们心灵的模拟机制，从而有利于心灵哲学领域的发展。