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Experience begins as sensation.

Undirected.
Uninterpreted.

Pressure in the body.
Movement.
Charge.
Release.

Sensation is not positive or negative.

It is simply data.

The story arrives afterward.

The story organizes sensation.

It assigns meaning.
It defines context.
It creates continuity.

Density forms there.

The tighter the story
(no gaps, assumed to be true or real, tied to identity)
the heavier experience feels.

Sensation is compressed into something personal.

Personalization produces identity.

Identity creates orientation.

Orientation produces contrast.

This and that.
Here and there.
Before and after.
Me and not-me.

The looser the story
(gaps allowed, meaning held provisionally, lightly bound to identity)
the lighter experience feels.

Nothing is removed.

Nothing is denied.

The same sensations appear, but with less compression.

Joy and suffering are formed the same way.

Both intensify through framing.
Both soften when framing loosens.

The structure is symmetrical.

Nothing in it prefers pain or pleasure.

Experience becomes vivid in proportion to how tightly it is held.

When framing loosens, experience does not disappear.

Sensation continues.
Movement continues.

What changes is density.

The sequence does not argue for a different outcome.

It points only to the mechanism by which outcomes appear.

From there, the rest is arithmetic.