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| | Hayek's Terra Incognita of the Mind |
 | | In a sense, the "sensory order" is like a mental encyclopedia that, at each successive moment, publishes a revised edition into which the next relevant entry is inserted. |
 | | According to this view, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. |
 | | In the case of the "sensory order," this process consists of the continual reshaping of our cognitive framework; that is, as the "sensory order" incorporates new bits of sensory data, it is itself altered by that datait recontextualizes. |
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