Sense functions have three parameters {sensation parameters}, making a function family. Different senses have different subfamilies. Within a sense, sense qualities have the same function with different parameter values.
sensation parameters: intensity
Intensity goes from zero to pain. Vision and other senses add receptor inputs to find intensity, and then compare adjacent intensities to find relative intensity. Intensity involves time, distance, momentum, and energy, which are never negative.
sensation parameters: non-opposing quality
Non-opposing quality goes from zero/low through middle to high maximum. Examples are frequency, concentration, polarity, shape, density, and absolute temperature, which are never negative. Light, sound, and vibrations have frequency. Molecules have shape, concentration, and polarity. Materials have temperature and density.
sensation parameters: opposing quality
Opposing quality can go from negative to zero to positive. Examples are charge and spin. Opposing quality can go from below to neutral to above. Examples are acidity and cool to neutral to warm temperatures, as well as compression to equilibrium to tension. Opposing quality can go from left to symmetric to right. Examples are handedness and parity. For opposing qualities, range ends are opposites.
sensations
Sensations always have intensity and have at least one opposing quality and at least one non-opposing quality. Senses combine sensation parameters to make sensations.
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