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THE EXPANSION OF PERCEPTION

1) All language is allegory to experience. The most complex terms are simply increasingly loaded combinations of basic experiences.

2) as we evolved, the content of our communication changed: things that are deducible or imaginable rather than visible, audible etc.

2) Our experiences are limited. We can only sense so much on our own, with the physical bodies that we have to work with.

3) Language allows us to collect a greater range of experiences than we can on our own. Even experiences separated by time and space.

4) Our ‘calculative’ (not computational) ability is limited. We can only ‘figure out’ so much on our own.

5) Language allows others to help us calculate what we could not calculate on our own.

6) Systems of measurement allow us to ‘sense’ what we cannot sense with our senses alone.

7) Systems of calculation and computation let us compare and contrast what we cannot figure out on our own.

8 ) Language, Measurement, and Calculation and Reason allow us to extend our perceptions, and to create symbols that we can manipulate with the limited abilities that we do possess.

9) The purpose of philosophy is to test, integrate, reconstruct, rearrange, evaluate, prioritize and articulate our body of knowledge to our advantage given the new information available to our senses by way of our tools, measurements, communications, and calculations, so that we can make best use of the information at our disposal.