Sensing Is Not a Matter of the Sense

John of saint thomas understands the reception of form without matter to refer to a knower's receiving the form of another as other while remaining itself. If one is to claim that being is sentient, it is necessary to provide evidence that something more than physical change has taken place in it. We humans are not only able to sense, but weare also able to sense that we sense. In addition to knowing that we sense, we also know that food nourishes us and that we grow, or have grown. However, we have no consciousness of these activities which indicate that they do not involve sense perception.