As an independent scholar in neuroscience with a B.A. in Latin
and Greek (University of Washington, Seattle, 1968) I question
whether "propriocepsis" is a legitimate term in the vocabulary.
Action-nouns taken from Greek verbs typically end in "-sis" as
in the case of "thesis" or "epiphysis" or "thanatopsis," but
a word starting with the Latin root "proprio-" should continue
only with similarly Latin stems such as "-ceptive" or "-ception"
or even "-spinal," but not a forced Grecification like "cepsis."
If "cepsis" were a Greek word, the result would be "autocepsis."
Not only do I advise histneur scholars to shun bad compound words,
but I alert you to the fact that your field of neuroscience is
ripe for a sudden merge with artificial intelligence and robotics.
http://victoria.tc.ca/~uj797/ is a Latin site on "De Re Mentifica"
or "On the issue of mind-making" -- a borrowing from the founding
document of modern metallurgy, "De Re Metallica" (1556) by Agricola.
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/ is the website of a Theory of Mind:
Hearing Vision Concepts Volition Emotion Motor Output
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| ||||||| || | ___ | | + | |||||||||||| |
| ||||||| || / \ | + | |S|||||||||| |
| ||||||| || (image)-|---+_ | |H|||||||||| |
| ||||||| || \___/ | / \ | |A|||||||||| |
| ||||||| || | (idea) __ | |K|||||||||| |
| | ||||| || | \__/---------------/ \ | |E|||R|||||| |
| |d------||---------|---+ ____ (fear)-|--*|||U|||||| |
| ||||o|| || | +-------/ \----\__/ | |||||N|||P|| |
| ||g|||| || | + / de- \---------|------*|||E|| |
| || |||| || | + ( ci- ) | |||||||||T|| |
| ||||||| || | + \ sion /---------|----------*|| |
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Arthur T. Murray mentifex at scn.org POB 31326 Seattle WA 98103-1326