reellt

Reellt is a neologism used in philosophy of mind and cognitive science to denote the felt immediacy of sensory experience—the sense of reality as it presents itself to a conscious observer. The term focuses on experiential content rather than external measurements or theoretical descriptions of the world. It is used to analyze how subjects perceive continuity, presence, and co-occurrence of stimuli, and how attention and expectations modulate that experience.

Etymology and scope: The coinage appears in late 2010s scholarly discussions and combines the element real with a nominal suffix -t to signal a quality or state. It does not have a single author or official status, and its usage remains informal or exploratory in most writings.

Concept and characteristics: Reellt refers to how the world appears to a perceiver, not to the world in itself. It encompasses immediacy, coherence across sensory modalities, and the sense of being embedded in a physically situated environment. The concept is often discussed in relation to phenomenology, perception, and consciousness, and is considered to be influenced by context, attention, and prior beliefs.

Applications and debates: In discussions of virtual reality, augmented reality, and simulated environments, reellt is used to articulate why users experience a convincing sense of presence even when external data indicate mediation. Some scholars see it as a useful shorthand for phenomenological content, while others caution that it may overlap with or unintentionally reify subjective experience.

See also: Phenomenology, Qualia, Realism (philosophy), Perception, Consciousness.