Reference Sensations

Gold coin, Canadian people, 1984.

For a methodical discussion about perception we identify several reference sensations drawn from everyday human experience that are standards from which all sensations are judged and recognized. For WikiMechanics, these sensations are mathematically represented by numbers called constants.

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	Seeing the Sun.
	Seeing human blood.1
	Seeing gold.
	Touching ice.
	Touching steam.
	Hearing a human heartbeat.
	Touching a living human body.
	Touching the Earth.

Blood on a wounded human finger.

Next step: classifying sensations

Footnotes

1. If the contemplation of human blood seems inappropriate, please note
that the first thermodynamic calculations linking heat and motion were
inspired by exactly this sensation. See: K Caneva, Robert Mayer and the
Conservation of Energy, Princeton University Press, 1993, page 235.