Will, Cognitive Dissonance, Data-Processing

Moments of 'cognitive dissonance' are like stumbling while walking--a struggle to integrate a new encounter into ongoing experience. They thus demonstrate the homeostatic function of Comprehension. Accordingly, the eventual resolving of the dissonance, resulting in a representation of the encounter, demonstrates that any phenomenon, like the maintaining of balance while walking, is the product of a stabilizing absorption of a disruption to Will. It is only upon subsequent analysis that a phenomenon is abstracted as a 'datum', and that Comprehension is construed as 'data-processing'.