The phrase
"sensory apparatus" refers to the parts of your body that help you experience and understand the world around you. It includes your eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin, which allow you to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch things. Your
sensory apparatus helps you gather information about your environment and interact with it.
Full definition
The fact that one possesses what the philosophers call a «fully
functioning sensory apparatus» doesn't guarantee that one genuinely hears what's said.
Primary qualities are viewed as objective, i.e., independent of the knower's frame of reference, while secondary qualities are judged to be subjective, i.e., involving the complicity of the subject imposing his own
peculiar sensory apparatus on the bodies perceived.
In most animals, the brain is located in the head, protected by the skull and close to the
primary sensory apparatus of vision, hearing, taste and olfaction.
Perhaps the mites have not
evolved sensory apparatus that allows them to reliably distinguish between cadavers and live females — so they may just be a bit confused.
Skou's artistic practice draws upon the theoretical direction Object Oriented Ontology, which detaches things from human optics and positions them free from the
human sensory apparatus.
The
collective sensory apparatus created by rapidly spreading, interlacing telecommunications and computer networks clearly can cut in two directions.
For me, it's kind of like having a planet - spanning two -
way sensory apparatus tracking sources of information or insights ranging from Stan Lee to the Dalai Lama, NASA's Asteroid Watch program to the hashtag #SaveSharks.
They argued in a review paper, published in the journal Animal Cognition, that a spider's web is at least an adjustable part of
its sensory apparatus, and at most an extension of the spider's cognitive system.
But now it's like a 7th sense —
a sensory apparatus that spans the planet and works in both directions.