It is tempting at such times to think, "What is wrong with them that they would do that?" or, "What is wrong with me that I don't understand them?" The answer in both cases is always "Nothing," but to accept that answer I must trust in something I cannot immediately perceive.
Reactive control loops take immediate actions based on immediately perceived external stimuli, while the deliberative and reflective loops feature an increased level of learning: the first based on anomaly detection, while the later focuses on the clustering and detection of temporal patterns.
As he tells Hobbes: "I make it quite clear in several places … that I am taking the word 'idea' to refer to whatever is immediately perceived by the mind" (Replies 3, AT 7 181).
In this way your having (i.e., immediately perceiving) the sense-data you do is supposed to account for what it is for a public object to appear to you to be a certain way; and you have sense-data whether or not there is any public object that you indirectly perceive by immediately perceiving them.
Tiny poems, many an inch wide, packed with color and argument not immediately perceived, like an inverse Whitman.
Though raised by Protestant parents, Mr. Franklin attended a Catholic high school and he immediately perceived a deeper meaning.
Olga, drawn by the sound of Andrea playing a borrowed fiddle, strays onto the Widdington property and is immediately perceived as a threat.
Teachers, administrators and union officials immediately perceived the action as a threat, and although Ms. Knox dropped her request for resignations, people remain cautious.
But one synesthete in the study who sees 8's and 0's in green and 3's and 7's in red immediately perceived the numbers vertically.
He immediately perceived how the bases could point inward, holding the spiral staircase together with steps of always equal width, provided that adenine always paired with thymine, and guanine with cytosine.
