I overcame the shock of first writing a protagonist who was a different age from me, a different gender, or apparently undergoing experiences very different to my own.
In About Schmidt, he returns to the road movie at the age of 65 to give one of his greatest performances as a repressed conformist undergoing experiences he doesn't wholly comprehend.
There is evidence that orexin neurons are capable of undergoing experience-induced synaptic plasticity, which is thought to be responsible for the maintenance of long-lasting arousal (see [ 27] for a review).
DA neurons undergo experience-dependent plasticity, which is thought to be a cardinal cellular mechanism shaping behavioral strategies6.
But it has difficulty in properly accounting for our knowledge of what it is like to undergo experiences of determinate hues while we are undergoing them.
According to Nagel, an organism undergoes experiences with a subjective character "if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism something it is like for the organism" (Nagel 1974, 166).
We investigated how the structure of synaptic contacts is modified when the synaptic connections between neurons undergo experience-dependent strengthening.
Prior to the "onset of hearing," developing cochlear inner hair cells (IHCs) and primary auditory neurons undergo experience-independent activity, which is thought to be important in retaining and refining neural connections in the absence of sound.
But, when people who have undergone experiences similar to yours (odds against them and still emerged victorious) that will serve as an eye-opener for you.
This is that our awareness of our own experiences is immediate, in such a way that to believe that you are undergoing an experience of a certain sort is to be undergoing an experience of that sort.
The phenomenon of how and why people are moved morally and spiritually may be as mysterious to those undergoing the experience as it is to the observer.
