In response to Kyle - full post here
I was recently thinking about this post and about the concept of something completely new; now, I think this is difficult to answer this question because we cannot actually conceive of the notion of a completely new experience. As we know from experience as creatures partaking in space-time, we are always forced to action (even inaction is actions); we cannot not act in any given situation. Your question is something akin to "what determines you to act in a certain manner if you are in a completely new situation?"
I think that the answer would be the same as with non-new experiences. Your mindset at any given time, determines your actions in the immediate future. If you found yourself in a shockingly new experience you would be terribly confused, but would be forced to act in away that your neurons and so on cause you to act. The unfamiliarity would undoubtedly lead to a predictable hesitance and confusion. If your safety was at risk, the predictable reaction of panic would ensue. This is why I cannot appropriately answer this question, it's much to impossible to even entertain the notion of a completely new experience. Especially since this entirely new situation would be unrecognisable as a new situation because it would be so drastically different from every other new situation that we've ever experienced.
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