Experience based only on external stimuli (i.e., not internally generated/controlled stimuli such as daydreaming)

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The definitions under this heading can involve technology or not involve technology and often explicitly involve technology; the phenomenon is a subjective property of an individual person; and the source of the stimuli in the experience is only external, i.e., impingements on the senses from the physical world outside the body.

Sample defintion(s):

Waterworth (2003):
“We see presence as the feeling a conscious organism experiences when immersed in a concrete external world"

International Society for Presence Research (2002): "Presence (a shortened version of the term "telepresence") is a psychological state or subjective perception in which even though part or all of an individual's current experience is generated by and/or filtered through human-made technology, part or all of the individual's perception fails to accurately acknowledge the role of the technology in the experience. ... Experience is defined as a person's observation of and/or interaction with objects, entities, and/or events in her/his environment ...." (The Concept of Presence: Explication Statement)

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