[MD] What is SOM?

[Krimel]

DM: All our ideas about natural processes derive from experience and
our imaginative atempts to make sense of this experience and to narrate
a story of how we have got to this point. We have to assume an understanding
of experience to understand how we can tell these stories and make these
descriptions. We start from experience to tell a story of how we got to this
point. We always have to start the story from here even if we are telling a
story that starts with the big bang but ends with how we got to the point
where we could start to imagine a big bang once began this story. Before
we can take seriously our descritions of natural processes we need to
understand how we do this, so we need to understand experience 
phenomenologically,
we need to describe experience and how we create notions like natural 
processes.

[Krimel]
I would say this is exactly the point I have been trying to make for a
slightly different angle. I think phenomenologically we need to understand
how it is that we have experiences or if you prefer how "we" are
differentiated by experience. I think understanding how we detect patterns
and make meaning is important and I think the neuroscience have a great deal
to add to the discussion.