Organism Experience
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An Organism Experience is a experience space for an organism as it interacts with its environment.
- Context:
- It can (typically) encompass sensory experiences such as sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.
- It can (often) include emotional responses to external stimuli, like fear, pleasure, or stress.
- It can range from being a simple reflex response to being a complex cognitive experience.
- It can involve physiological processes like homeostasis and metabolism.
- It can be influenced by an organism's genetics, environment, and past experiences.
- It can contribute to an organism's behavior and decision-making processes.
- It can vary widely between different species, from simple organisms like bacteria to complex organisms like humans.
- It can be studied through fields such as neuroscience, psychology, and biology.
- It can include Person's Experience as a specific type, involving human identity and social contexts.
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- Example(s):
- a Plant's Experience of sunlight, leading to the process of photosynthesis.
- a Dog's Experience of hearing a loud noise, which might cause it to bark or run away.
- a Human's Experience of tasting a something sour.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Inanimate Object Reactions, which do not involve sensory or emotional experiences but rather physical and chemical changes.
- Algorithmic Processes, which simulate decision-making without true sensory or emotional experiences.
- See: Sensory Perception, Emotional Response, Behavioral Science, Neuroscience