Definition
Pre-Meaning describes the human state where atmosphere, bodily sensation, intuition, and emotional resonance appear before explicit interpretation.
People are moved before they can explain why. A room feels calm, a street feels alive, a cafe feels returnable, or a town feels quietly memorable.
Pre-Meaning is not irrational. It is an earlier layer of human intelligence, where the body, memory, and atmosphere begin to organize meaning before words catch up.
Kansei.info treats this layer as essential for UX, fieldwork, worldview design, and human-centered AI.
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