#senses — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #senses, aggregated by home.social.
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Music is important in my life. I want to sing along when the spirit moves me and feel the intense emotions that music has the power to grant.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2018/10/the-importance-of-music-in-our-lives
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MARCUS: The power of separating the intellect from the senses, and reason from instinct, is characteristic of the highest genius.
[Magni autem est ingenii sevocare mentem a sensibus et cogitationem ab consuetudine abducere.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 16 (1.16) / sec. 38 (1.38) (45 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #tusculandisputations #abstraction #genius #habit #instinct #intellect #reason #senses #thought
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When you’re watching the #solarEclipse today, make sure to use your other senses as well, not just your sight. Listen carefully and feel the changes on your skin!
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The Weight of Wonder
Two nights before leaving for the Pacific Northwest, I find myself surrounded by wrinkled itinerary pages, hiking gear, and a dream I’ve carried for nearly half my life. What begins as a story about planning slowly becomes something much deeper: learning that simply standing in the place you’ve longed for can matter more than finishing every mile.https://perfectlyimperfectlife.blog/2026/07/19/the-weight-of-wonder/
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 👃💬 #English speakers often struggle to describe smells without naming their source.
#Languages like #Jahai and Cha'palaa have dedicated vocabularies for scent instead. Sociolinguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky discusses why we rely on shortcuts and associations rather than specific descriptors for all the #fragrances we notice.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/why-is-it-hard-to-describe-smells
#activities #biology #color #communication #community #culture #indigenouspeoples #nose #science #senses #smell #sound #writing #linguistics #vocabulary #speech #tksst #video
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Yesterday, I Needed Quiet
For the past few weeks, I’ve been sleeping more than I have in a long time. I’ll wake up only to fall back asleep again. Projects I’ve been excited about sit untouched. Chores around the house feel bigger than they should. I honestly don’t know why. Yesterday was no different. I almost didn’t go.https://perfectlyimperfectlife.blog/2026/07/05/yesterday-i-needed-quiet/
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 👃💬 #English speakers often struggle to describe smells without naming their source.
#Languages like #Jahai and Cha'palaa have dedicated vocabularies for scent instead. Sociolinguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky discusses why we rely on shortcuts and associations rather than specific descriptors for all the #fragrances we notice.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/why-is-it-hard-to-describe-smells
#activities #biology #color #communication #community #culture #indigenouspeoples #nose #science #senses #smell #sound #writing #linguistics #vocabulary #speech #tksst #video
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Chapter Seven: Return to Wonder | Perfectly Imperfect Life
For years, the Pacific Northwest has lived somewhere in my imagination. As July begins, I’m reflecting on why some places stay with us long before we’ve ever arrived and how learning to notice beauty has quietly changed the way I move through the world.https://perfectlyimperfectlife.blog/2026/07/01/chapter-seven-return-to-wonder/
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 👃💬 #English speakers often struggle to describe smells without naming their source.
#Languages like #Jahai and Cha'palaa have dedicated vocabularies for scent instead. Sociolinguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky discusses why we rely on shortcuts and associations rather than specific descriptors for all the #fragrances we notice.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/why-is-it-hard-to-describe-smells
#activities #biology #color #communication #community #culture #indigenouspeoples #nose #science #senses #smell #sound #writing #linguistics #vocabulary #speech #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ NEW: 👃💬 #English speakers often struggle to describe smells without naming their source.
#Languages like #Jahai and Cha'palaa have dedicated vocabularies for scent instead. Sociolinguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky discusses why we rely on shortcuts and associations rather than specific descriptors for all the #fragrances we notice.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/why-is-it-hard-to-describe-smells
#activities #biology #color #communication #community #culture #indigenouspeoples #nose #science #senses #smell #sound #writing #linguistics #vocabulary #speech #tksst #video
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Cambridgen Elementsien mielenfilosofian sarjassa on ilmestynyt uusi kirja AISTEISTA, https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/senses/96CD7FCCD5A9AABEFCB3937BB1DE4FD7
"... launches a broadside against the visual-centric approach that has dominated philosophical and scientific discourse about the senses"
Open access, ja saa myös pdf:nä talteen.
#aistit #senses #mielenfilosofia #philosophyOfMind #filosofia
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Take care of those ears
Woke up Monday hearing nil
Hope the doc can help
#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Summer #June #Hear #Hearing #Ear #Ears #Senses #Audiology #ENT #Audiologist #Sound #Akron #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026June 23, 2026
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241 Days Later
For so much of the last week, I have been focused on what felt broken. The Body Dysmorphia. The RSD. The exhaustion. The darkness that likes to lurk in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity to convince me that I am weaker than I really am. Monday reminded me that while those things may always be part of my story, they are not the whole story.https://perfectlyimperfectlife.blog/2026/06/23/241-days-later/
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Loved Anyway
After several days spent battling Body Dysmorphia, RSD, exhaustion, guilt, and self-doubt, I walked into my first confession expecting to leave feeling lighter. That isn't exactly what happened. What I found instead was something I wasn't looking for: reminders that even in the middle of my mess, my mistakes, and my struggles, people kept showing up. Sometimes love doesn't remove the weight you're carrying. Sometimes it simply reminds you that you don't have to carry it alone.https://perfectlyimperfectlife.blog/2026/06/22/loved-anyway/
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#Quotes #Animals #Senses #HenryBeston
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth. -Henry Beston, naturalist and author (1 Jun 1888-1968) -
"More familiarity just brings more questions—the birds become more mysterious, not less." Read a new essay from Jenny Odell about soft eyes, deep listening, and other ways to strengthen how we perceive. https://longreads.com/2026/06/02/jenny-odell-deep-listening-soft-eyes/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #perception #earth #seeing #hearing #senses #attention #longreads
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Sweet Lady Violet is blooming again in France and I will never forget how this plant once helped me to get back one of my lost senses: https://www.cronenburg.net/sweet-lady-violet/ Yes, you can talk to plants and become friends.
#bloomscrolling #florespondence #HesperisMatronalis #wildFlowers #gardening #reciprocity #reconnectWithNature #scent #scentTherapy #hope #senses #NaturePhotography #FlowerPhotography #friends #lazygardening #summervibes #magicInTheMundane #treasure
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Music is important in my life. I want to sing along when the spirit moves me and feel the intense emotions that music has the power to grant.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2018/10/the-importance-of-music-in-our-lives
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As the psychologist J. J. Gibson points out, a fire “provides information for the ears, the nose, the skin, and the eyes. The crackling sound, the smoky odor, the projected heat, and the projected dance of the colored flames all specify the same event, and each alone specifies the event. One can hear it, smell it, feel it, and see it, or get any combination of these detections, and thereby perceive a fire.”From: A Dialog of the Senses by Sile O'Modhrain
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This firsthand account of the 2009 Aus-
tralian bushfires is a vivid reminder that perception of events is acquired not
through one sensory modality but rather from the synthesized experience
of simultaneous perceptions associated with an event. In the case of a brush
fire, these are smoke (olfactory), heat (tactile), crackling flames (auditory),
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
“So what’s the point of showing me something I can’t see?”
“So that you understand that just because you see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s there. And if you don’t see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s not there. It’s only what your senses bring to your attention.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 17 (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/83135/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #mostlyharmless #attention #demonstration #existence #perception #reality #senses #showing #visibility
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@VeroniqueB99 @Felis_Catus_Domesticus
.. not only decades ago ..
My favourite of Arthur Rimbaud:
Hunger
I only find within my bones, A taste for eating earth and stones.
When I feed, I feed on air, Rocks and coals and iron ore.
My hunger, turn. Hunger, feed: A field of bran.
Gather as you can the bright, Poison weed.
Eat the rocks a beggar breaks,
The stones of ancient churches' walls,
Pebbles, children of the flood, Loaves left lying in the mud.* * *
Beneath the bush a wolf will howl, Spitting bright feathers
From his feast of fowl: Like him, I devour myself.
Waiting to be gathered, Fruits and grasses spend their hours;
The spider spinning in the hedge, Eats only flowers.
Let me sleep! Let me boil, On the altars of Solomon;
Let me soak the rusty soil, And flow into Kendron.Finally, O reason, O happiness, I cleared from the sky the blue which is darkness, and I lived as a golden spark of this light, Nature. In my delight, I made my face look as comic and as wild as I could:
It is recovered.
What? Eternity.
In the whirling light
Of the sun in the sea.
O my eternal soul,
Hold fast to desire
In spite of the night
And the day on fire.
You must set yourself free
From the striving of Man
And the applause of the World!
You must fly as you can...
No hope, forever; No _orietur._
Science and patience,
The torment is sure.
The fire within you,
Soft silken embers,
Is our whole duty--
But no one remembers.
It is recovered.
What? Eternity.
In the whirling light
Of the sun in the sea.I became a fabulous opera. I saw that everyone in the world was doomed to happiness. Action isn't life; it's merely a way of ruining a kind of strength, a means of destroying nerves. Morality is water on the brain. It seemed to me that everyone should have had several other lives as well. This gentleman doesn't know what he's doing; he's an angel. That family is a litter of puppy dogs. With some men, I often talked out loud with a moment from one of their other lives-- that's how I happened to love a pig. Not a single one of the brilliant arguments of madness-- the madness that gets locked up-- did I forget; I could go through them all again, I've got the system down by heart. It affected my health. Terror loomed ahead. I would fall again and again into a heavy sleep, which lasted several days at a time, and when I woke up, my sorrowful dreams continued. I was ripe for fatal harvest, and my weakness led me down dangerous roads to the edge of the world, to the Cimmerian shore, the haven of whirlwinds and darkness. I had to travel, to dissipate the enchantments that crowded my brain. On the sea, which I loved as if it were to wash away my impurity, I watched the compassionate cross arise. I had been damned by the rainbow. Felicity was my doom, my gnawing remorse, my worm. My life would forever be too large to devote to strength and to beauty. Felicity! The deadly sweetness of its sting would wake me at cockcrow-- ad matutinum, at the Christus venit-- in the soberest of cities.
O seasons, O chateaus! Where is the flawless soul?
I learned the magic of Felicity. It enchants us all.
To Felicity, sing life and praise, Whenever Gaul's cock crows.
Now all desire has gone-- It has made my life its own.
That spell has caught heart and soul, And scattered every trial.O seasons, O chateaus! And, oh, the day it disappears, Will be the day I die.
O seasons, O chateaus! All that is over. Today, I know how to celebrate beauty.CREDIT Music/Poetry Video:
Music by Hector Zazou & The Sahara Blue Orchestra* Poetry by Arthur Rimbaud
20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891 / Charleville, Ardennes* performed by John Cale
Title: HUNGER
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Introduction (1977)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/10161/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #hearing #language #perception #sensation #senses #sight #touch #vocabulary #words
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🦇 Humans show bat-like skills using mouth-click echolocation
(... and where is the bat-man?)
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-humans-skills-mouth-click-echolocation.html
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#Wayllu means #idyll in the #Kichwa #language 💕
This is the #Pachamama of the #Amazon, which gives us its colossal #magic and has inspired us.
#Love for Pachamama, for #nature. This is the place where the #senses are heightened by the #exotic scent of the #plants and the #songs of the #birds 🐦Create a space to nourish yourself with #LIFE #ENERGY in this #beautiful place
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Rooms: 5
Living space: 151m²
Plot: 7.347m²
#Napo #Ecuador 🇪🇨https://www.bluehomes.com/PEC0021/en/Wayllu-means-idyll-in-the-Kichwa-language/expose.html
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The Godfather of AI says the technology is already concious WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We don’t understand human consciousness yet, but many are already saying AI is conscious …... WHY THIS MATT...
#Intelligence #and #the #Senses #AI #Ethics #Artificial #Intelligence #ChatGPT #Conciousness #Ethics
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The Godfather of AI says the technology is already concious WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We don’t understand human consciousness yet, but many are already saying AI is conscious …... The post The ...
#Intelligence #and #the #Senses #AI #Ethics #Artificial #Intelligence #ChatGPT #Conciousness #Ethics
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Study finds AI Reasoning models have Society of Thought and argue with themselves WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF I argue that AI has more in common with humans than we think and have... The post Study f...
#Intelligence #and #the #Senses #Artificial #Intelligence #Beijing #DeepSeek #AI #Company #DeepSeek
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