Among other 20th-century philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead may fittingly be called a panpsychist inasmuch as in his philosophy each actual entity is capable of prehensions that involve feelings, emotions, consciousness, and so on.
One consequence, he argues, is "disgust skepticism" (139), according to which the combination of disgust's hair trigger and its ballistic trajectory mean that it is extremely prone to incorrigible false positives that involve unwarranted feelings of contamination and even dehumanization.
Numinous experiences contrast with religious experiences that involve, for example, feelings but no alleged acquaintance with non-sensory realities or states of affairs.
"Tactile defensiveness" is a term first used by A. Jean Ayres, an occupational therapist and psychologist, to describe a subtype of sensory processing disorder that involves "feelings of discomfort and a desire to escape the situation when certain types of tactile stimuli are experienced" (Ayres 1964).
You think about having another cup of coffee, but then a haptic device ("haptic" refers to technology that involves touch and feeling) that is embedded in the heel of your shoe gives you a gentle pinch – a signal that you'll be late for your morning meeting if you linger any longer.
For the past six years, she has barely left this ramshackle shelter ― which contains only a single bed and the bare essentials ― except to go to the outhouse, a painstaking process that involves feeling her way along the house and up a hill with a stick to an outside toilet. .
Sympathy has been defined as a "predominantly emotional attribute that involves feeling patients' pain and suffering" [ 15].
We have a feeling he'd do pretty well on any obstacle that involves a pullup.
Worry is a cognitive phenomenon that involves rumination over future events accompanied by feelings of anxiety.
With meditation you can learn to let all the stuff that is other peoples frustrations and problems wash over you and stop affecting you because you are aware of the core central person you are, with all the strange feelings that this involves.
He's torn between Napoleonic self-importance and louse-like abjection, feelings that will eventually involve him, like Raskolnikov, in a crime of some motivational complexity.
