Finally, perception and understanding would also be revealed as close cousins.
The illogic, the apparent absurdity, of a Rauschenberg collage or a Barthelme story makes people impatient, because it seems to violate ordinary habits of perception and understanding.
Could it be that the public reads the Syrian tragedy with a much greater sense of perception and understanding of the chances of success than Miliband?
"That's what I'm playing with," he once said aptly, while invoking the kindred spirits Stendhal and Joyce, "the voyage between perception and understanding".
This is a book that offers both perception and understanding, an achievement that matters all the more because Jemma Wayne's subject is one that is often misunderstood and misrepresented: the state of Israel.
"No other war in history has produced as much poetry as did the first world war," writes the editor Vivien Noakes, "and with no other war has poetry so much influenced popular perception and understanding of the conflict".
"Just imagine how the president might have responded to Ariel Sharon's crazy schemes if we hadn't had the foresight to take out the neural pathways normally connected with perception and understanding," Mr Wolfowitz told a meeting of the Association of Muslim Neurosurgeons For An All-Jewish Israel.
Faulkner takes the idea a step further by limiting his 33-year-old Benjy to the perception and understanding of a child of 3. Groaning and disruptive as he is, he accompanies the endlessly patient servant Dilsey to the celebration in her little church.
He does this not through "perception and understanding" but through the qi, the vital energies of the body.
Second, the public perception and understanding of new technologies are closely linked to old narratives (Nottingham 1999).
Thirdly, and most importantly, AI escapes human gaze when the details of its effects and technological dynamics go beyond human perception and understanding.
