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se-no-to · W090

senoto · percept without cognitive model (unresolved signal) · ⏳

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First use Canonized by design decision, March 2026. Corpus attestation pending.

Composition

se (perception) + no (negation/absence) + to (conceptual pattern)

Definition

The state of perceiving an affective or emotional signal that has not resolved into a conceptual model. Not ignorance about external facts — the specific phenomenon of receiving internal signal that cannot be named, located, or categorized. Compositionally unambiguous via two converging parse paths: [se-no]+[to] (no-signal-thought) and [se]+[no-to] (perception- of-no-model) both yield the same meaning. This covers a cluster of psychological phenomena: alexithymia, depressive anhedonia, SSRI emotional flattening, trauma-related affect disruption. Shortform for the full construction la-mi se, no-to-mi. Contrast: se-no (signal-absence = emotional numbness, total-absence case) vs se-no-to (signal received but not resolved — the more common case).

Notes

Related construction: la-mi to [la-zo-mi se lo-X] — observer mode; agent analytically models that organism is feeling X. Falls out of the zo/li ontological split without requiring new grammar. See semantic-map.md § Domain 7 for the full emotional process model and canonized construction table. fa (primitive 33) is the affective substrate root; fa-no-to is the fa-based form of unresolved affect alongside this se-based form.

se (perception), fa (affective substrate), no (negation), to (conceptual pattern), zo (organism), la-zo-mi se lo-X (somatic/reactive construction, Domain 7)

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