Our sensory perceptions are shaped by our conceptual understanding of the world

Our sensory perceptions are shaped by our conceptual understanding of the world.and the two are so connected that one cannot exist without the other.If this model suggested
by ideasthesia is accurate,it may have major implications
for some of the biggest scientific and philosophical issues
surrounding the study of mind.Without a preexisting concept of self,Descartes would not have had an
to attribute the thinking to.And without a preexisting network of
interrelated and distinct concepts,our sensory experience of the world would be an undifferentiated mass rather than the discrete objects we actually apprehend.For science, the task is to find where this network lies,how it is formed, and how it interacts with external stimuli.For philosophy, the challenge is to rethink what this new model of consciousness means for our understanding of our selves and our relation to the world around us.