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[HydrogenBond]

The sensory systems are the precursors of consciousness, with the sensory systems affecting various parts of the brain. Once the sensory memories are set up, consciousness can then make use of the same neural pathways, without the sensory systems, via thinking and imagination to get similar effects. We don't have to see something to believe it exists, but can visualize it in the mind, based on previous sensory input, and extrapolation using various mental constructs.

For example, someone can describe a new food item in terms of color, texture and ingredients. I don't have to see it or taste it directly, to extrapolate what it may taste like. In this case, the only sensory systems being used is hearing, which usually doesn't work with food, since food can't talk.

Or the person could write down the description of the food, on a piece of paper. I will then use my visual sensors to know what the food tastes like. Science is good at collecting the cause and effect of the brain hardware, but the mind does not have to add up to this cause and effect because it can use routing via constructs. Reading the paper with the ingredients can lead to the unexpected use of the taste parts of the brain. Internal data collection can see the constructs in action and know this is suppose to happen since it is the conscious goal.

The sensory translation constructs themselves can have their own secondary software routing. For example, one can describe a recipe for a given food, so the person can generate their internal sensory taste using audio input via language construct. The taste extrapolation can then be routed by biased constructs to give a good or bad sensory reaction to the constructed flavor. One may need to actually taste it to make sure the primary software is calibrated and/or the secondary constructs aren't biasing the image of the sensory construct.