Never ending set of promises. Endless deferral
While there is something to be said for the this endless deferral (as I have mentioned to you, in terms of an endless series of checkpoints), I will gladly oblige in this situation. That said, in my mind, I was already fleshing this out in the previous
two three posts.
The information you derive from experience is physiological, emotional, whatnot. But the important point is that it is based on unmediated and unrefracted experience.
The information you derive from, say, watching the news or talking about politics with other humans is not direct, it is mediated by some number of cogito-prisms that, based on how they interpret and how they articulate (two layers), effect the information they receive in some way.
This mediated, indirect information can be thought of as folding over upon and complimenting the information you would receive directly from experience. Perhaps this indirect information enriches, suppresses, distracts, highlights, juxtaposes, clarifies etc the infinite number of possible conclusions that can be derived from direct experience. To say that there is an infinite number is not to say that all possibilities are on the table. There are degrees of infinity. You can have an infinite number of possibilities even under certain parameters.
So the information derived from experience is to be categorically distinguished from the information derived from narratives or any other such indirect source. But this is still all the map, not the territory.