Human Experience Theory

I consider this draft to be my best tribute to psychology. It is an exploration of how humans experience the world. No doubt is it lacking, but it is still, in my opinion, worth some value.


Human → Interior, Exterior

Interior → Body & Brain, Mind & Identity

Exterior → Creatures & Relations, Environment & Stimuli

Body & Brain: all bodily systems, needs, voluntarity, amount of stimulus-processing, emotions, emotional processing, hormones/chemicals, physical structures, consciousness, abilities (or lack thereof), implicit memories...

Mind & Identity: cognitive abilities, explicit memories (including knowledge), self-perception, self-awareness, external awareness, mode of focus, contemporary priorities, long-term goals, values, preset assessments...

Creatures & Relations: type of people present, type of people interacting with one, presence of an unfamiliar crowd as well as the crowdedness of such, familiarity of people, species...

("Type of people" refers to: friends, partners, coworkers, family, local society, broad society or total strangers.)

Environment & Stimuli: place, time of day, temperature, weather, decor in its broadest sense, lighting, colors, sounds, scents, lunar cycle(?), physical senses...


Stimuli → Body → Brain —(urgent?)—(yes)→ Unconscious output

—(no)→ Filter according to (in no particular order): mental state, physical state, similar explicit and implicit memories, mode of focus, recent stimuli, preset assessments, contextual awareness, social awareness, self-awareness, contemporary priorities, current needs, current thoughts and emotions

Current thoughts and emotions -(thoughts, emotions)⇢ Brain, Body (respectively)

Filter → New thoughts and emotions → Conscious output

New thoughts and emotions ⇢ Current thoughts and emotions

Unconscious output, conscious output ⇢ Stimuli

Contextual awareness: awareness of the present environment, including time.

Filter: distinguisher between "important" and "unimportant" stimuli, focuses consciously on the former according to the brain. Its purpose is to not overwhelm the brain as well as conserve energy; "unimportant" stimuli thus have a weaker conscious influence.

Mental state: the general state of one's mind, perhaps including the brain.

Mode of focus: one's mode of attention, on a scale between scattered and focused.

Physical state: the general state of one's body.

Preset assessments: conceptions one had learned or created according to past experiences.

Recent stimuli: changes in space that preceeded the current changes.

Self-awareness: awareness of one's position and influence in a social context.

Social awareness: awareness of the present people, including the types of people they are (see above), the general social context and its state.

Stimuli: any change in space, outside or inside the body, that is sensed by the body.

Thoughts: neural interconnections experienced as vivid, nonexternally-sourced stimuli.

Unconscious output: actions not dictated by consciousness, including instincts and habits.


Mental processes, as well as bodily processes (and perhaps virtually anything, too) can act like stimuli in terms of enabling the experiencing process.


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