Right. I guess I'm struggling for a concise way to say what I'm trying to say, and hoping you'll interpret me correctly based on the long paragraphs I've written explaining what I mean by these shorter sentences. Maybe something like:

"Whaddyaknow, we discovered a mechanism that actually encodes value for stimuli with neuron firing rates! Ah, but this particular mechanism can't encode value for the objective intensities of stimuli, because this mechanism discards that information at the transducer. So that constrains our theories about the motivation of human behavior."