Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.
There's a misunderstanding about what nonsensical things are - the idea that they're just funny, and that's the beginning and the end of it. Nonsense is not 'not sense' - it operates at the edge of sense. It teems with sense - at the same time, it resists any kind of universal understanding.
The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.