I Know How You're Thinking

It starts when you get some kind of data.

This is through some type of sensory input. You might detect a signal as a molecule plugging in to the right spot, triggering an electrical impulse that sends a signal to your brain that that particular molecule is out there. We call this type of sensory input odor or smell.

Then, we’re able to determine the wavelength of light as it reaches our finely-tuned apparatus, so good it can detect as few as five individual photons. If we didn’t see colors, but instead just saw these values as numbers, that would include all of the information we need to recreate all the colors we have… but would it be the same?

These sensory inputs are very evidently a form of raw data coming in, which our brains then sort into useful, actionable information. Sometimes you can have too much information coming in all at once, like when you bite into something that has too many flavors all at once, or if punk rock music just sounds like a cacophony to you.

Sensory perc…