“We have another vulnerability that is easily overlooked: when we assemble (or assess) the identity of something (i.e. decide what / who a thing is) either through and with the senses, or in our mind (or both…and more) — we are generally forced to select a category and ‘thing type’ we are already familiar with as a stage — somewhat akin to the canvas of the painter. No canvas? No painting. But these cognitive canvases, or schemas, provided to us through our enlanguaging and enculturation are at best very incomplete and at worst too restrictive to be as applicable as we suppose. Invariably they bring with them dangerous reductions and biases which we are not empowered to examine or deal with (in common experience). Thus, to some degree, they call for their own revolution. In other words, new kinds of canvas remain to be discovered or invented, and it is nearly certain that most of reality is in truth more akin to such yet-to-be-invented canvases than it is to those we possess, trade, attack and defend.”

— an anonymous informant