External stimuli only

Details:

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

Sample defintion(s):

Steuer (1992):
“Presence can be thought of as the experience of one’s physical environment; it refers not to one’s surroundings as they exist in the physical world, but to the perception of those surroundings as mediated by both automatic and controlled mental processes (Gibson, 1979): Presence is defined as the sense of being in an environment” (p. 75).

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