Sunday, 22 November 2020

The Relation between Stimulus and Subjective Experience

 The Relation between Encryption/Stimulus to Decryption/Subjective Experience.

If plasticity resides in the brain then one type of encryption/stimulus can result in many types of decoding/subjective experience by the brain. In this context the brain acts as a decoder/interpreter.

Thus, your subjective experience of interpreting a book will be "different" from my subjective experience of interpreting the sentences in a book. This interpretation will be partly dependent on my priors/preconceived notions as opposed to another human beings'. 



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