There are welcome, neutral, and unwelcome things
There are welcome, neutral, and unwelcome things. Objects can also be divided into groups base on similarities, which can be distinguished from one another.
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Narrative Brain: the Stories Our Neurons Tell by Fritz Breithaupt
In the book
Imagine your faculties peeled away one by one and you will feel how close to raw chaos a human consciousness actually starts — disturb its wiring even a little and the senses bleed into one another. From the very first moment the mind is doing frantic triage, sorting the welcome from the unwelcome, grouping like with like, scrambling to build a map. That is the cockpit you woke up in. — Takeoff Into Chaos