Sensorium

/sɛnsˈɔːɹiəm/

/sɛnsˈoːɹiəm/

Sensorium

the areas of the brain that process and register incoming sensory information and make possible the conscious awareness of the world

Examples

1. And it's this dissonance, uncomfortable as it is, that occupies the heart of what I'll call, in the last section, the Republican sensorium.

2. So what's distinctive to me in Cicero's speeches, where he frequently refers to himself as split or double or divided, isn't the rhetorical strategy itself, but the sensorium behind it.

3. And finally, how to cultivate what I'll call the Republican sensorium, what it is to think and feel as a citizen living in a republic of conflict.

4. While the Republican sensorium comes at a certain cost, one of the things that has to go is, if my picture is right, is the aggressively complacent celebration of oneness that some people call patriotism.