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Visual Feeling of Presence
Author(s) -
Ferretti Gabriele
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/papq.12170
Subject(s) - feeling , perception , object (grammar) , representation (politics) , relation (database) , vision for perception and vision for action , psychology , visual perception , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , aesthetics , computer science , artificial intelligence , social psychology , philosophy , neuroscience , politics , database , political science , law
Abstract Everyday visual experience constantly confronts us with things we can interact with in the real world. We literally feel the outside presence of physical objects in our environment via visual perceptual experience. The visual feeling of presence is a crucial feature of vision that is largely unexplored in the philosophy of perception, and poorly debated in vision neuroscience. The aim of this article is to investigate the feeling of presence. I suggest that visual feeling of presence depends on the visual representation of a very particular spatial relation with the object we interact with: the visual representation of absolute egocentric depth, which is due to stereoscopic vision.