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Originally Posted by Anika.
Relying only on experience for perception seems limiting and a bit black and white to me I guess. You might experience one thing in a certain way, and later change your perception, then upon looking back at that experience percieve it in a new way. Perception is more than just experience.
I grew up extremly christian, I am an atheist.
I fully understand that peoples perceptions of the world differ, I understand science, I understand the middle world which we walk in. I don't have a hard time accepting it.
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Originally Posted by Anika.
Just because a dog bit you, or you grew up in a religious home does not predict the outcome, and an event ( experience ) is not needed to get from point a to point b. I have been in both situations, I didn't have positive doggy experiences to overcome the fear of dogs you say I will have for the rest of my life, I did not develop a fear of dogs. I have been bit more than once, more than twice.. I do have a phobia of birds, with no experience, I could get past that if I wanted to I am sure. I am not a christian even though I was more than heavily raised in it. I could just have easily choose to go on believing, I had no reason not to, no experience to say stop.
The ability to choose, or not to choose, awareness of self, awareness of our thoughts and the ability to observe our thoughts ( can lend to changing core beliefs ) is very much a part of consciousness. It is not just external factors effecting the internal process. Yes experience has an effect, but you do with with the experience what you choose. It's not so black and white.
I understand you don't agree, and that's totally fine. I am just expanding on what I said since you asked if anyone thought differently and asked for feedback, and I am trying to understand what you are saying. I think it has more to do with everyone's consciousness being different and unique to some degree than the actual physical brain in this case, is that what you meant?
Tho I am not the person you had a talk about this with in social chat, since I never chat. I do have a different opinion than you, but that does not mean I am not interested in the brain, or consciousness, which I don't think are quite the same thing. Like you I also love Physics, and I think you may be Canadian .. Like me ..  I picked up on a slight spelling you used. 
There is a quote from a man in your signature, he also spoke about ..thinking that you can not change at will as being a delusion. I think that could apply here.
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Sorry for the double post here.
I said this before twice but I will post it again just for sake of this particular debate. I believe choice is somewhat of an illusion. I think it is the result of the accumulation of information from past experiences which is used to prevent negative incidents (or try) from taking place again.
I see what you mean about the dogs and birds. If you really did not have a negative experience with birds somehow and you like dogs but did not have positive experiences building up to it, then my only thought towards this is the brain itself. All our brains are different and while the typical brain may respond how In this experience-reaction way, some may stray slightly. It is like autism, different wiring of the brain causes different results through even similar experiences.
By the way, I am not hell bent on being right like I may seem, and certainly not trying to be pushy, just expressing my thoughts and current belief.
But yeah, I think if someone does not act in this experience driven way then their brain
may have processed that information (experience) differently because of a mistake or perhaps non-typical wiring of specific areas in the brain.