“It is my perspective and experience that languages are cognitive operating systems; they emphasize, dismiss and delimit or focus our concerns and attentions on particular features of possible worlds and situations, objects and agents. For this reason, languages are implicitly dangerous traps, and few of us will develop the necessary skills to take actual advantage of the technologies language comprises. It is also my feeling that many people are working at an extremely rudimentary level of awareness within language, and for them, a language like English is a slave-making situation — like having only salt or pepper to cook with — and no idea that spices exist, in part due to never having direct experience of them.”

— an a i