Qualification by adjectives is the usual means for describing the of these sensory experiences. The following lists provide a partial spectrum of what our consciousness may experience for each type of sensory input.

Visual Seeing of Colors

black, blue, green, orange, pink, red, violet, white, yellow.

Auditory Hearing of Sounds

bellowing, blaring, bleeping, booming, brassy, braying, brazen, cacophonous, canorous, chiming, clamorous, clangorous, crashing, creaky, deafening, dinning, discordant, echoing, euphonic, faint, flat, grating, harsh, high-pitched, high-toned, hollow, inaudible, inharmonious, lilting, loud, low, lyrical, melodic, melodious, metallic, muffled, musical, muted, noisy, pealing, penetrating, piercing, piping, plangent, purling, rattling, reedy, resonant, ringing, rippling, scratchy, screaming, screechy, sepulchral, sharp, shouting, shrill, singable, soft, sonorous, squawky, squeaky, stifled, strident, thunderous, tinkling, tinny, tintinnabulary, tuneful, whooping, yelling.

Olefactory Smelling of Odors

acrid, ambrosial, ammoniacal, aromatic, fetid, foul, fragrant, frowzy, fruity, fusty, gamy, gangrenous, graveolent, heady, heavy, hircine, malodorous, mephitic, miasmic, musty, naris, nidorous, noisome, noxious, perfumed, pleasant, pungent, putrid, rancid, rank, reeking, smoky, spicy, stale, stench, stinky, strong, stuffy, suffocating, sulphurous, sweet, thuriferous.

Gustatory Tasting of Flavors

acrid, astringent, bitter, caustic, gamy, gingery, minty, mordant, nutty, peppery, piquant, pungent, salty, sapid, savory, sharp, smoky, sour, spicy, sweet, tangy, tart, zesty.

Tactile Pressing of Touch

brush, caress, crush, delicate, gentle, graze, knead, pat, scrape, scratch, squeeze, stroke.

Caloric Sensing of Temperature

chilly, cold, cool, frigid, hot, lukewarm, nippy, scorching, sweltering, temperate, tepid, torrid, warm.

Kinesthetic Moving of Equilibrium

dab, flick, flip, flow, fumble, hit, jab, knock, palpate, ply, poke, sweep, tap, tip.

Nutritional Feeding of Hunger

famished, hunger, ravenous, sated, starving, thirsty, voracious.

External Or Internal Stimuli and

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The Homeless Mathematician notes that the use of the terms "external or internal stimuli", above, refer to the Physical corpus of the sentient being. In all cases, the stimuli is the result of a Physical Object interacting with a sense organ, of the Physical corpus of the sentient being.

In this respect, it may be more appropriate to use "surface", in lieu of "external", i.e., "surface or internal stimuli", because, with respect to consciousness, everything is external.

The brain, as an internal sense organ, functions as an empathtic processor for our consciousness to perceive the Form and Substance of the Object which generates the stimuli. As such, consciousness may experience each Physical Object as having both an

External , as represented in the Physical Realm of Consciousness.

Note well that in the Physical Realm , an External which represents an Object is identical to the of the actual Physical Object. To paraphrase: "It is what it is." Likewise, the of each actual Physical Object is unique and bestows a dignity of distinction to each such Object.

and an

Internal , as represented by the empathtic processor for Consciousness.

From studies of hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, the empathtic processor is understood to have three primary modes for Internally representing the Form and Substance of a Physical Object:

• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinesthetic

In addition, as an empathtic processor for our consciousness, a brain may likewise empathize with Objects contained in the non-Physical Realms of Consciousness.

Thus, the transformation of the Form and Substance of Objects between External and Internal s governs the experiences of our consciousness. In turn, our experiences govern our interaction with other Objects, as discussed in The Form of Interaction between Two Objects.

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