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Our five bodily senses make us adequate to the lowest Level of Being — inanimate matter. But they can supply nothing more than masses of sense data, to “make sense” of which we require abilities or capacities of a different order. We may call them “intellectual senses.” Without them we should be unable to recognize form, pattern, regularity, harmony, rhythm, and meaning, not to mention life, consciousness, and self-awareness. While the bodily senses may be described as relatively passive, mere receivers of whatever happens to come along and to a large extent controlled by the mind, the intellectual senses are mind-in-action, and their keenness and reach are qualities of the mind itself.
-E.F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed
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<aside> 📌 THE IDEA OF SENSEMAKING
The word sense is based on a quite modern use of the Latin stem sentire and is used to express certain bodily feelings. Sentire is widely understood as to perceive, to feel, and to capture; it has been adapted to the word family of “senses” (e.g. sensual, sensory, sentiments) to express certain bodily perceptions. Generally, the senses are the processing of stimuli and their selected and more or less conscious perception,3 as is the case with the Aristotelian five senses.4 Sometimes it is the malfunction of either the body or the respective sensory sys- tem that leads to its awareness. This applies, for example, to the vestibular sense when we feel nausea, or to nociception when we feel pain.5
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