As humans, our experience consists in perceiving, in a continuity of now-ness, and more or less mindfully, a sense of a self/soul/consciousness that experiences, and appears to direct, a body and mind in choices of action of body, speech and mind, while reacting to unending arisings of emotions, thoughts and sensory perceptions.

Perceptions and memory are continuously ri-processed to create and transform instincts, habits, values, principles, goals, preferences, tastes, which in turn affect our thoughts, actions and our perception of external phenomena.

Core to such experience is the continuous perception of various levels of pleasurable or painful physical sensations and emotions.