Considerations

Different individuals may register the same sensory subject in nearly the same, slightly different or completely different ways, depending upon the person's Associative Landscape. Two different people may experience the presence of the same dog in different ways, depending upon the experience each has had with dogs in the past. One person may like all dogs and pet every dog one encounters having been around dogs all of one's life, while another person may not trust dogs having limited or bad experience, and stiffen with the encounter of any dog. This kind of varying registration is termed Interpretive Context, which means that present sensory subjects are interpreted individually, by the context of association or experiences one has previously had with the subject.

The Interpretive Context is different for different kinds of people, in terms of dissimilar experience, such as the difference in wealth, climate and geography, education or outdoor experience. The individual recognizes, identifies and gives context to present consciously aware sensory impressions and images, by comparison with association.

Associative Landscape is derived from actual physical everyday experience, or from more removed means such as reading, watching films, or listening to others, such as story telling, and from thinking and imagination.

Association is the screen and filter in which all present reality is interpreted. Associative Landscape is the portals from which reality is perceived and interpreted.

These portals can be generalized into categories as associative perspectives, such as the type of national culture, political perspectives, religious beliefs or educational training. They also may include the experiences and values inculcated by one's family back-ground, the friends and relationships one has had, and general experience within one's community. From this Association one interprets the world.

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