> What makes you think that this is the case? If someone touches you from behind do you immediately fall over dead from sensory overload? My point was not that

> What makes you think that this is the case? If someone touches you from behind do you immediately fall over dead from sensory overload? My point was not that reactions/feelings etc are switched by a signal being 1 or 0, just that sort-of-digital signals (line "on" or "off") are possible within the brain. My idea about the instruction-set I was talking about earlier was not that it immediately switches behaviours on or off, but that it selects the next, slightly different or deeper "brain circuits / loops" to get activated and shift the whole apparatus towards finally acting out a certain behaviour. But, as you point out, that is all unfounded speculation.