Okay so this may feel like splitting hairs, but...<p>You&#x27;re talking about input, I&#x27;m talking about output.<p>Experience is influenced  (to varying extent) on sensory input, but they&#x27;re not the same thing.<p>Sensory input of course influences experience,  I&#x27;m not going to deny a sledgehammer to the hand.<p>While you feel that the distinctions drawn above serve only to obscure things, in fact the reverse may be true. The Cartesian perspective that &quot;output is nothing but a response to input&quot; has been pretty much discarded in modern research into pain, neurology, consciousness, psychiatry, and so on.<p>So i don&#x27;t deny the role of sensory input. I&#x27;m just pointing out that input is distinct from  output; they&#x27;re not the same thing.