Then it might be that you don’t have access to the sensation Richard is talking about.
I can distinguish states where I’m totally immersed in a video game and the video game world from states when I’m aware of myself and conscious of myself.
If I wanted to go more into detail I can distinguish roughly four different sensations for which I have labels under the banner of “I experience a certain sense of my own presence”.
There a fifth sensation that I used to mislabel as presence.
I can distinguish states where I’m totally immersed in a video game and the video game world from states when I’m aware of myself and conscious of myself.
Ok, so who, exactly, is it that is “totally immersed in a video game” ? If it’s still you, then you have simply lost awareness of (the majority of) your body, but you are as conscious as you were before.
Then it might be that you don’t have access to the sensation Richard is talking about.
I can distinguish states where I’m totally immersed in a video game and the video game world from states when I’m aware of myself and conscious of myself.
If I wanted to go more into detail I can distinguish roughly four different sensations for which I have labels under the banner of “I experience a certain sense of my own presence”. There a fifth sensation that I used to mislabel as presence.
Ok, so who, exactly, is it that is “totally immersed in a video game” ? If it’s still you, then you have simply lost awareness of (the majority of) your body, but you are as conscious as you were before.