Meaning of sentics | Babel Free
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“1991 Timothy K. Smith "Manfred Clynes Sees A Pattern in Love⟳ -- He's Got the Printouts" in The Wall Street Journal, September 24, front page Prof. Clynes is a published poet and author of five books. He coined the word "cyborg". He also coined the word "sentics" to describe⟳ a new science entirely of his own⟳ devising.”
“A science called sentics is based on the ability of sound⟳ and music to induce different states of consciousness.”
“2006 Biography of Dr. Manfred Clynes at the Manfred Clynes Institute of Amity and Emotion Research⟳ web site Another of his inventions, the sentograph, measures expressive actions of deliberate expressive pressure of a person's finger. When a person has an emotional experience⟳, such as listening to music, his nervous system acts in a characteristic way, demanding expression, and this can be expressed through by finger pressure, measured on the sentograph. The sentograph allowed Dr. Clynes to discover⟳ these characteristic emotional shapes. He found that all of humanity seems to share⟳ these emotional shapes. They appear⟳ to be programmed materially into the way our nervous system is designed. People in widely dispersed, superficially and racially distinct communities had the exact same sentic form⟳ for emotions like⟳ anger and love⟳. The study⟳ of these phenomena became the science of Sentics, a word Dr. Clynes coined and a field he pioneered.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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