Perhaps, sense qualities depend on acceleration patterns {acceleration pattern and sensations} and are about flow vibrations, jolts, eddies, vortexes, streamlining, and turbulence.
motions
Translations, vibrations, rotations, reflections, inversions, and transitions can have accelerations. Vibrations, rotations, and transitions have acceleration changes.
accelerations
Forces include tensions, compressions, and torsions. Photon and molecule interactions transfer energy and cause forces, accelerations, and acceleration changes. Materials resist tension, compression, and torsion and reduce initial acceleration to zero acceleration. Accelerations have location, duration, maximum, minimum, and change rate.
jolt types
Acceleration changes (jolts) are vectors, with magnitude and direction, and have different types.
Acceleration can be zero (with no net force), so jolt is zero. Acceleration can be constant positive (due to constant positive force), so jolt is zero. Acceleration can be constant negative (due to constant negative force), so jolt is zero.
Acceleration can increase at constant rate (due to constant positive force change), so jolt is constant positive. Acceleration can decrease at constant rate (due to constant negative force change), so jolt is constant negative.
Acceleration can increase at increasing rate (due to increasing positive force change), so jolt is increasing positive (until resisting force makes it constant positive). Acceleration can decrease at increasing rate (due to increasing negative force change), so jolt is increasing negative (until resisting force makes it constant negative). Acceleration can increase at decreasing rate (due to decreasing positive force change), so jolt is decreasing positive (until it becomes constant). Acceleration can decrease at decreasing rate (due to decreasing negative force change), so jolt is decreasing negative (until it becomes constant).
Acceleration can oscillate between increase and decrease, so jolt oscillates.
collisions
Before inelastic collisions, colliding-object deceleration is zero, and velocity is maximum: kinetic energy = 0.5 * mass * velocity^2. In inelastic collisions, colliding-object deceleration quickly reaches maximum, and velocity starts to decrease: Force = mass * acceleration = k * (S - x) = -k * S, where k is material's resistance factor, x is distance traveled in material, and S is distance at which object stops. After inelastic-collision process ends, colliding-object deceleration and velocity decrease to zero: F = k * (S - x) = 0.
vibrations
At vibration equilibrium point, molecule acceleration is zero, and velocity is maximum. Then, velocity decreases, and deceleration increases. At maximum displacement, velocity is zero, and deceleration is maximum. Then, velocity increases, and acceleration increases, in opposite direction. At equilibrium point, acceleration is zero, and velocity is maximum, in opposite direction. Jolts depend on wave frequency and amplitude.
receptor acceleration patterns
Energy transfer causes receptor-molecule change. Molecule atoms accelerate, change energy to potential energy as they decelerate, and then stop moving. Then, molecule transfers energy to signal molecule, and receptor molecule returns to resting state. Signal molecules go to other cell receptors, making a cell signaling system. Neurotransmitters, neurohormones, and neuroregulators go to receptors on other cells and sustain the code. Receptors, signal molecules, and later molecules have vibrations and so acceleration changes.
String theory has extra spatial dimensions. Universe may have hidden spatial or temporal dimensions. Perhaps, mind is in hidden dimensions, and experience is orthogonal to normal space-time {dimension and sensations}. However, physical activity must affect mind, so mind does not involve extra spatial or temporal dimensions.
Electromagnetism can relate to sense qualities {electromagnetism, sensations}.
electromagnetic induction
Changing electric fields induce magnetism, and changing magnetic fields induce electric force. Perhaps, brain induces mind. For example, brain particles cause mind waves.
fire
Fire is electromagnetic radiation from excited electrons in oxidation reactions. Perhaps, brain has reactions whose secondary effects make mind. Burning is like unconsciousness, and fire is like consciousness.
magnetism
Though net electric charge is zero, electric-charge relativistic motions make observable net electric charge perpendicular to motion, creating magnetism. Perhaps, mind depends on active "charges" whose relative motions and interactions create net effects, but whose static states are not observable.
Physical and mental descriptions use variables. Variables can be measurable and have units. Variables can be ratios with no units. Variables can be not measurable and have no values or units. Perhaps, brain is about measurable variables, but mind involves hidden immeasurable variables {hidden variable and sensations}. Properties that combine other properties can seem ineffable. For example, words can sound the same when used as nouns or verbs, but actually have subtle noun-marker or verb-marker sound features.
Matter and energy properties are discrete. For example, energy has quanta. Matter and energy are both particle and wave. Waves allow probabilistic physical events and transitions without intermediate states. Particle waves are infinite and allow action at distance and non-local effects. Quantum-mechanical mathematical waves simultaneously represent multiple points and energies, and string-theory moving strings simultaneously represent multiple points. Perhaps, sense qualities are brain-activity quantum-mechanical effects {quantum mechanics and sensations}.
mathematical waves
Perhaps, mind and consciousness involve mathematical waves, similar to quantum-mechanical waves. Infinite waves have no definite position and fill space, accounting for sensory field. Waves can have wave packets, accounting for sensations.
complementarity
Quantum-mechanical waves and particles describe event positions and energies (complementarity). Forces are particle exchanges, and energies depend on wave superpositions. Perhaps, brain and mind have complementarity. Brain uses particle motions, and mind uses abstract waves.
electronic transition
Electrons orbiting atomic nuclei move to other orbits with no intermediate stages. Quantum-mechanical waves change frequency with no intermediate frequencies. Perhaps, mind is like quantum-mechanical waves or is intermediate to physical interactions.
virtual particle
Quantum-mechanical particle interactions and wave energy transformations can create particle pairs that exist for less than one quantum time unit. For example, spontaneous energy fluctuations create virtual particle pairs in space vacuum. Interaction cannot create single particles, because one particle cannot conserve momentum. Instruments cannot observe virtual particles, because they recombine rapidly to return vacuum energy to more-probable state. Though they have short existence, virtual particles can interact with real particles. Perhaps, mind is like virtual particles, which can affect brain but have no direct measure.
orbitals
Electron orbitals have one resonating wave, with frequency, amplitude, inertia, and moment. Perhaps, sense qualities are resonating wave packets in three-dimensional orbitals. Orbital amplitude represents intensity. However, orbitals cannot model colors, because colors also have saturation.
spins
Particles have spin, with frequency, amplitude, inertia, and moment. Perhaps, sense qualities are particles with spins. However, spins cannot model colors, because primary-color spins cannot interact or sum to make secondary-color spins.
General relativity shows that masses and energies change space shape, and changed space alters particle motions through space. Perhaps, brain is like masses and energies, and mind is like space {relativity and sensations}. Brain masses affect mind space, and mind space affects brain masses.
Universe has right and left forms, and most physical laws have parity. Perhaps, universe has another right-left-like asymmetry that causes reality to have two sides, physical and mental {right-left symmetry and sensations}. Mind can look behind reality. For example, surfaces have two sides, and back can affect front and vice versa. Mental reality is entirely physical but is complementary to physical reality.
Particle and object collisions, gravitation, and electromagnetism are relatively strong (primary) forces. Perhaps, mental forces and energies are very weak (secondary) forces and energies {subphysical processes}.
Superphysical processes transcend physical forces by extending them {superphysical processes}. Perhaps, mental forces and energies are superphysical.
Perhaps, sense qualities are energies, and their intensities are energy densities {energy and sensations}. Perhaps, perceptual surfaces have types of kinetic and/or potential energy.
Physical forces have one dimension, because they are interactions between particles. Vectors represent forces. Physical energies have no dimensions, because they are integrals of forces over distances. Scalars represent energies. Physical energies can flow, so intensities have one dimension. Vectors represent intensities. Perhaps, sensations have more than one dimension, because they combine properties.
Heat, an extensive quantity, makes temperature, an intensive quantity. Perhaps, brain energy makes mind intensity {heat and temperature and sensations}.
Potential energies are scalars and have type, amount, radial distance, azimuth, and elevation. Sensations are not vectors, because sense qualities do not have direction or flow. Like potential energies, sensations are in fields. Sensations have azimuth, elevation, and radial distance. Perhaps, sensations are like non-physical potential energies {potential energy and sensations}.
Independent things add. Same objects and properties can add. Summing or subtracting two same-type quantities results in values with same unit. Integration involves summation. Summations make extensive quantities.
Interacting objects and properties multiply. Same or different objects and properties can multiply. Multiplying or dividing two quantities results in values with different unit. Differentiation involves division. Divisions make intensive quantities.
Two masses or two charges interact to make gravitational or electric force. Multiplying same units can make intensive quantities: (4 kg) * (6 kg) / (2 meters)^2 = 6 N of force. Multiplying 4 newtons of force and 5 meters of distance makes 20 newton-meters, 20 joules of energy. Multiplying different units can make extensive quantities. Multiplying 4 coulombs and 5 kilograms makes 20 coulomb-kilograms. However, combining charge and mass has no physical meaning, because charge and mass do not interact. Multiplying can make extensive or intensive quantities.
Only continuous quantities can interact. Discrete quantities cannot affect each other. For example, 4 oranges times 5 bananas results in 20 banana-oranges, which do not exist. Multiplying 4 oranges and 5 oranges results in 20 orange-oranges, which do not exist.
New things arise from physical or mathematical interactions. Perhaps, sense qualities arise from physical or mathematical interaction mechanisms {interaction and sensations}. Neurons use no units.
Joining existing things can produce something new {joining and sensations}. Joining alters or destroys existing objects.
Physics is still discovering new physical forces and energies, with unknown properties. Perhaps, mind has new physical forces, energies, and fields {new force or energy}. However, mind does not measurably affect physical world.
Splitting existing things can produce something new {splitting and sensations}. Making something from physical void or vacuum requires splitting. Void can split into opposites: point and anti-point, pole and anti-pole, left spin and right spin, and ON mark and OFF mark. Splitting can destroy existing properties.
Perhaps, colors are like crystals, with different symmetries and harmonics {crystals and sensations}.
Perhaps, sense qualities result from kinetics and dynamics of many abstract particles, which make phases {particles and sensations}.
Solid, liquid, and gas phases depend on material, temperature, and pressure. Within a sense type, sense qualities are like phases {phases and sensations}. Perhaps, red, green, and blue are different phases. Complementary colors mix phases, like at double points. Color mixtures that result in white, gray, and black are at triple points.
Brain is like phosphors, which phosphoresce for seconds after stimulation {phosphorescence and sensations}. Long times allow neuron activities to integrate.
Oscillations can be longitudinal along one dimension, such as chemical-bond-length oscillations. Oscillations can be transverse along two dimensions, such as chemical-bond-angle oscillations. Violin-string points oscillate transversely across resting-string line. Plane waves, such as in vibrating guitar strings, can rotate around travel-direction axis, like helices, in three dimensions. Electromagnetic-wave points have transverse electric-field oscillation and transverse perpendicular magnetic-field oscillation. Electromagnetic waves also travel, so they have three dimensions and can rotate around travel direction. Electrons in electronic orbitals can oscillate in three dimensions.
Waves spread over space. Perhaps, mind is like waves {waves and sensations}. However, waves cannot model colors, because primary-color waves cannot interact or sum to make secondary-color waves.
wave modulation
Television and radio signals have basic frequencies. To carry information about music or scenes, basic-wave amplitude or frequency can vary with signal intensity and frequency. Flow modulation can carry information. Perhaps, mind is modulated brain waves or flows.
frequency transitions
Waves change frequency in one cycle, with no intermediate stages. Mind transitions between mental states with no intermediate states.
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