II.   Mind (PSY)

Sensation is the biochemical and neurological effects of a biofeedback loop involving one (1) or more external stimulation upon the sensory organs. Hence, a sensation is a “physical feeling” whether it be the result of one (1) sense or some combination of sensory stimulation.

All higher order life forms generally possess twelve (12) senses, being sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, balance, temperature, magnetism, pain, position, psychic, inner sight:

(i) Vision, also known as “sight” is the ability to sense images and environment using changes in density and reflection of visible light; and

(ii) Audition, also known as “hearing”, is the ability to sense changes in the density of the molecular medium around the body (air or water), expressed as vibrations or sound; and

(iii) Gustation, also known as “taste”, is the ability to sense the general chemical composition and classification of substances through direct sampling or “tasting”; and

(iv) Olfaction, also known as “smell”, is the ability to sense the specific chemical composition and classification of a wide range of substances through detection of airborne samples through “smelling”; and

(v) Tactition, also known as “touch”, is the ability to sense the texture, viscosity, hardness of a substance through direct contact; and

(vi) Equilibrioception, also known as “balance” is the ability to sense body movement, direction, and acceleration, and to attain and maintain postural equilibrium and balance; and

(vii) Thermoception, also known as “temperature” is the ability to sense images and environment using changes in density and reflection of infrared or heat; and

(viii) Magnetoception, also known as “magnetism” is the ability to sense images and environment using changes in density and reflection of electro-magnetic fields; and

(ix) Nociception, also known as “pain” is the ability to sense pain and therefore danger or damage to the body; and

(x) Prorioception, also known as “position” is the ability to sense and move the relative position of the parts of the body to a central conscious point without assistance of other senses; and

(xi) Intuition, also known in this context as “psychic” or “sixth sense” is the ability to know the relative environment, position of objects or immediate dangers without apparent direct sensory feedback; and

(xii) Navigation, also known as “inner sight” is the ability to use the other senses to move the whole body relative to the environment avoiding direct collision with other objects or life forms.

Vision, also known as sight is the ability to sense changes in density and reflection of photons through the existence of eyes possessing photoreceptors in the retina, which through training and education become specialized and generate electrical impulses upon perceived sensory input of different light frequencies.

Audition, also known as hearing, is the ability to sense changes in the density of the molecular medium around the body, expressed as vibrations or sound through the existence of mechanoreceptors within ears which through training and education become specialized at converting the vibrations into electrical impulses upon perceived sensory input.

Gustation, also known as taste, is the ability to sense the general chemical composition and classification of substances through direct sampling via specialized and different chemical receptors on the tongue converting the chemical reaction into specialized electrical impulses to different parts of the brain depending on sweetness, bitterness, saltiness and sourness, or more refined sense of taste if the sense is trained to do so.

Olfaction, also known as smell, is the ability to sense the specific chemical composition and classification of a wide range of substances through detection of airborne samples, via specialized and different receptors within the nose converting the chemical reaction into specialized electrical impulses to different parts of the brain depending on the training of the sense.

In the case of all senses, the existence or absence of training and education of receptors to distinguish differences with the field of the sense, will normally lead to greater skill if trained and used, or lesser skill if untrained and unused.