The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.
Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 7, 1974.
-- Annie Dillard, (Apr 30 1945-____), US author; She won a Pulitzer prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1975.