Entity (objective)

Details:

In these definitions of presence technology is explicitly not involved and the phenomenon is an objective property of a human or nonhuman entity.

Sample defintion(s):

Floridi (2005):
"[T]o be present is to be the value of a typed variable of a LoA [level of abstraction]… depending on the class of typed variables in question, there might be three ways of being present/absent at a given LoA: 1) as source of action/interaction, 2) as a property-bearer, 3) as both (1) and (2).... The new model shifts the perspective from an internal and subjective assessment of a peculiar experience - presence as epistemic failure - to an external and objective evaluation - which is presence as successful observability." (p. xx)

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