Pre-reflective and Social: What Phenomenology Can Teach Us About the Underlying Structure of Perceptual Presence.

Oblak et al. portray perceptual presence (PP) as an individually driven reflective operation. I question their account and suggest that PP involves a socially induced pre-reflective awareness of the lived environment. Within this primary framework, the wholeness of things is available to the subject, and deeper examination of perceived objects (if needed) comes to the fore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]