Prologue Part I Introduction - Synthetic Sensory Perceptive Machines 1. Chapter 1: Minds Without Bodies - The First Age of AI 2 Chapter 2: The Missing Senses - Why Intelligence Needs Embodiment 3 Chapter 3: Sensory Frontiers - Digitising the Human Sensorium Interlude - Becoming Sensate: From Thinking to Sensing Machines Part II: The Five (and beyond) Synthetic Senses: From Infrastructure to Intuition 4 Chapter 4: Synthetic Perceptual Technologies - From Theory to Engineering 5 Chapter 5: Seeing More Than We See -- AI-Enhanced Vision From Photons to Perception 6 Chapter 6: Hearing the Hidden World - Sound and Sonic AI 7 Chapter 7: Virtual Touch and Remote Feeling - Haptics & Digital Skin 8 Chapter 8: The AI Nose Knows - Digital Olfaction and Emotional Scent 9 Chapter 9: Tasting the Virtual - Digitised Flavour and Culinary AI 10 Chapter 10: Toward Synthetic Sensorium - Synthetic Intuition, Sensory Fusion, and the Origins of Machine Perception Interlude: Crossing the Threshold: From Experience to Meaning Part III: Reimagining Reality, Identity, and Ethics 11 Chapter 11: Blurred Boundaries - Virtual vs. Physical Experience 12 Chapter 12: Privacy of the Senses - Surveillance, Consent, and Autonomy 13 Chapter 13: Who Feels? AI Consciousness, Rights, and Moral Agency 14 Chapter 14: The Synthetic Self - Redefining the Human Through Perception Interlude - Becoming Planetary: From Individual Perception to Collective Sensing Part IV: Futures at the Edge - Society in the Post-Sensory Age 15 Chapter 15: Society in the Sensorium - New Rituals, Norms, and Cultures 16 Chapter 16: Designing for Dignity - Ethics-by-Design in the Synthetic Age 17 Chapter 17: The Augmented Planet - Geo-sensory AI and Planetary Intelligence 18 Conclusion: The Future of Feeling AI and What it Means for Humanity 19 Closing Thoughts: How Synthetic Sensing Will Transform Human Perception, Identity, and Connection Epilogue: The Synthetic Sensorium is Just the Beginning of a New Human Story Glossary of Key Terms Questions Considered/Addressed Index.