sense datum
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- noun
- /ˈsɛns ˈdeɪtəm/
- Specialized
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dato sensorial
- As she listened to the music, the sense datum of the rhythm and melody filled her with emotion before she could analyze it.
But you're in that same state where you are no longer processing your sense data.
- But you're in that same state where you are no longer processing your sense data.
- That that we're, we're, we are potentially much more conscious of data, sense data and everything else than we tend to be.
- What's going on is that the brain is is constructing a cube, but the sense data are compatible with two alternative cubes.
- And, and we would actually say within the, the nervous system itself, these impressions that we have that we call sense data, right, or sense impressions.
- So when your brain is regulating your body, your body is sending sense data back to your brain that your brain needs in order to keep that regulation going.
Examples
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When you touch a hot surface, the immediate pain you feel is a type of sense datum that alerts you to remove your hand.
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However, when fewer memory images are available, as when high, one must respond to the sense data as unfamiliar material.
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All of those are sense data that's coming to you.
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So when your brain is regulating your body, your body is sending sense data back to your brain that your brain needs in order to keep that regulation going.
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This enhancement of immediate experience is reflected in the effects of marijuana on sense data and time perception.
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And yet both would maintain that the workings of imagination and understanding require the raw material of sense data, as does the speech that brings them to expression.
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If this happens, it would provide much more energy for attending to sense data, and we could expect the sensory experience to be more vivid and more detailed.
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When we perceive an object, whether a fire in a fireplace, a photograph of a fire, a fire engine, or a fiery speaker, not only are we aware of the object, but we have also incorporated in our awareness these other elements that give structure and meaning to the sense data.
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Similar models, preprogrammed in outline by genes and past experience, and continuously updated by new sense data from millisecond to millisecond, are running inside the skull of every swimming fish, every galloping horse, and every echo-ranging bat.
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The child expressed joy at the colorful balloons; his reaction was based on the sense datum from the bright colors around him.
Synonyms
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A feeling in your body from touch, pain, or heat
A simple feeling you get from touch, sight, hearing, taste or smell
A simple feeling from one of your senses, for example touch or hearing
A quick feeling from sight, sound, touch, taste or smell
How Immediate
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- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'sense' (a sensory faculty) with 'datum' (a single piece of information) to yield the straightforward idea of a single piece of sensory information or immediate sensory experience. Although the term is technical/philosophical, its meaning is compositionally predictable from the constituents and has obvious parallels in other languages, so a learner who knows both words would infer the sense.
Etymology
Sense datum may come from the idea of one small piece of information our sense organs give us: sense for sight, sound or touch, and datum meaning 'a thing given'. So the phrase means a basic, immediate experience from the senses before the mind understands it.