This bridge begins to take shape when we notice that the technological concept of virtual reality also expresses a moral ideal. More precisely, it expresses what philosophers call a metaethical position. That is, it carries with it a certain understanding of the underpinnings of ethics: a picture of the moral agent and how she stands in relation to the world beyond her head. Taken in this sense, virtual reality provides an especially clear point of contrast to the concept of the situated self that I am offering.
