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How does Virtual reality and human connection challenge our conventional thinkin...

Virtual Reality, Human Connection, and the Reconfiguration of Conventional Think...

Explain: Redefining presence and immediacy

Redefining Presence and Immediacy

Explain: Conventional view: Face‑to‑face, co‑located interaction is the paradigm...

Why Face‑to‑Face, Co‑Located Interaction Is Seen as the Paradigm of Genuine Conn...

Explain: VR effect: Immersion and shared virtual spaces can produce strong sense...

Presence Without Proximity — How VR Reconfigures “Being There” for Human Connect...

Explain: Questioning authenticity and identity

Questioning Authenticity and Identity in Virtual Reality

Explain: Conventional view: Authentic connection requires stable, transparent se...

What People Mean by “Authentic Connection Requires Stable, Transparent Selves an...

Explain: VR effect: Avatars, anonymity, and role‑play let people modulate or rec...

Authenticity in VR — Expression or Intent?

Explain: Blurring public/private and mediated intimacy

Blurring Public/Private Boundaries and Mediated Intimacy in VR

Explain: Conventional view: Intimacy presupposes unmediated mutual vulnerability...

Why the Conventional View Treats Intimacy as Unmediated Mutual Vulnerability

Explain: VR effect: Intimacy can be engineered, shared, and recorded in mediated...

Engineered Intimacy in VR — Why Privacy, Consent, and Moral Status Become Compli...

Explain: Extending empathy and moral imagination

Extending Empathy and Moral Imagination in Virtual Reality

Explain: Conventional view: Empathy depends on direct perception of others’ embo...

Why the Conventional View Says Empathy Depends on Embodied Cues

Explain: VR effect: Perspective‑taking simulations can reliably change attitudes...

How VR Perspective‑Taking Can Expand — and Oversimplify — Empathy

Explain: Reframing moral and legal responsibility

Reframing Moral and Legal Responsibility in Virtual Reality

Explain: Conventional view: Actions have moral/legal weight primarily in physica...

Why the Conventional View Locates Moral and Legal Weight in Physical Space

Explain: VR effect: Harm, harassment, and property damage in virtual environment...

When Virtual Acts Matter: Harm, Responsibility, and Redress in VR

Explain: Challenging the boundaries of “real” flourishing

How Virtual Reality Challenges the Boundaries of “Real” Flourishing

Explain: Conventional view (Aristotelian/eudaimonic): A flourishing life is grou...

Why Aristotelian Eudaimonia Ties Flourishing to Embodied Social Practices

Explain: VR effect: If meaningful goods, social bonds, and personal growth can o...

Virtual Flourishing and the Challenge of Nozick’s Experience Machine

Explain: Design ethics: How should VR be built to promote genuine connection and...

Ethical Design Principles for VR to Foster Genuine Connection and Prevent Manipu...

Explain: Regulation and rights: How should laws treat virtual harms, property, a...

Regulating Virtual Harms, Property, and Personhood — Key Questions and Approache...

Explain: Personal cultivation: How should individuals balance embodied relations...

Balancing Embodied Relationships and Virtual Ties for Personal Cultivation

Explain: Slater, M., & Sanchez‑Vives, M. V. (2016). Enhancing our lives with imm...

Summary of Slater & Sanchez‑Vives (2016) — "Enhancing our lives with immersive v...

Explain: Turkle, S. (2011). Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology a...

Turkle, S. (2011) — Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less ...

Explain: Floridi, L. (2013). The Ethics of Information.

Summary of Floridi’s The Ethics of Information (2013)

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Explain: Baym, N. K. (2015). Personal Connections in the Digital Age.

Baym (2015), Personal Connections in the Digital Age — A concise explanation

Explain: Nozick, R. (1974). Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Experience Machine).

Nozick’s “Experience Machine” (from Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 1974)