III.   Biological Systems (PSYBIO)

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 ultraviolet light (visible light) and / or infrared light (heat); and

(ii) Audition, also known as “hearing”, is the ability to sense changes in the density (pressure) 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 electromagnetic 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.