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The Active Experience (see Figure 3-4, next page) is a construct used to represent all neural activity that is available to create events in our conscious and unconscious experience. The neural activity includes active ongoing behavior, Content and Emotion Memories, internal and external stimulation, background processes, and organ and brain functions. Everything else is dormant — namely, not active in the Active Experience. Suppose you learned as a child to slap a fly on your cheek. That memory is dormant until a fly lands on your cheek. Then it wakes up and becomes active — you slap your cheek.

The Basic Neurostructure shown in Figure 3-4 (next page) works on the neural activity in the Active Experience to create collages that cause our internal and external behavior. All active Content and Emotion Memories and other neural activity in the Active Experience are related in some way. The Basic Neurostructure uses some of these active memories to create collages.

Collages of memories run our behavior in the same way that computer programs run computers. The neural activity triggered by the collage of memories that creates activity in our body to make a response is similar to a computer program. The Basic Neurostructure takes the most appropriate Content Memories in the Active Experience in the current emotional context to create a collage. The Content Memories and emotions in the collage create a response. In other words, any response and its memory are a collage of the most appropriate memories assembled from all of this information in the Active Experience. The most appropriate memories in an emotional situation are selected from the active memories in the Active Experience to get more satisfaction and less pain.