I was proofreading/editing a cyberpunk short story a friend of mine was writing for a competition and it leant on a concept that we came up with together about the interaction between external information and an electronically augmented mind (cyberbrain/e-brain). We refered to this as 'chinese whispering'(like the game) and it goes a little something like this; everyone's sensory perception of the same physical stimulas is different, sometimes our minds even fill in the gaps in our perception. we see not what we see; but what we think we see.
(yes i know, but read that last sentence again a few times and it'll make more sense, promise

I look in the mirror and having a healthy self image I see a good-looking young man, (//ego reaching critical levels//) muscular farm-boy body, flowing surfer-boy hair(//EVACUATE EGO SHE'S GONNA' BLOW!!//) what I'm wearing looks equally good. When my attractive young underwear-model girlfriend (all lies) looks at me however, she sees that my teeth are yellow, my hair's a mess and my shoes don't match.(also lies)
"a mirror does not reveal the truth. instead it is a tool for concealing it" - confucious
information has no form of it's own so information entering a mind is as water being poured into a glass, it is manipulated by the form of the vessel.
This came up in the story in the form of a electronic virus that when passed from mind to mind would be changed by that mind (like a rumour in a game of chinese whispers) and thus our protaganist would have to find the first incarnation of the virus to form an antidote program, save the world and so on...
this begs the question that i would like to ask you.
Would an e-brain inhabited by a human mind 'read' a file of information without changing it in the same way a computer/pure AI would or would it 'interpret' the information according to it's own form?