If we consider divinities and humans just as perceivers, there is no automatic reason to prefer divine perceptions, and hence no absurdity.
The donkey herself, being a creature of divine and silent perception, of feeling as deep as eternity, always knows the difference.
And yes, there is something in us each, a thing of divine and silent perception, of feeling as deep as eternity, that also always knows the difference.
In the case of Ochoa, it required no extrasensory perception to divine that the defense of her title was not going swimmingly.
Using words that are general and non-specific can be read as "cheapening" the perception of the divine, but we must also keep in mind that our languages for the divine are already limited because human beings are limited.
In reflexive thought, there is a return of the mind onto itself, or an attending to the contents of the mind; such reflexive thoughts are more attentive perceptions of the divine ideas, and these thoughts are contemplations of the eternal truths.
Commoners' perceptions of the divine may have differed from those of the priests.
There is also, in the medieval scheme of things, another counterpart to perception, and that is divine illumination.
His enhanced perception allowed Harbisson to divine unlikely connections between the two -- telephone rings are green, Mozart concertos yellow, Amy Winehouse pink.
Some mysticism can indeed be defined successfully in terms of the experience or perception of unity with the divine.
