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“If we are trained to believe that numbers must be abstract, the idea of different ways of counting remains an eclectic subject for mathematical conjecture. Moderns do not believe in ‘ways of counting’. They ‘know how to count’ and thus the matter is laid to rest.

We seem to have overlooked the fact that mathematics originated in cultures which experienced and employed numeric entities as inherently meaningful vessels of connotation; transports to a deeper intimacy with pattern, identity and relationship.

These imaginary underpinnings inform the basis of our representational intelligence, and comprise crucial assets involved in assembling our experiences of identity and relation. When damaged by enforced abstraction, the results are crippling to our imagination and intelligence.

So, as it turns out, we need a better way to understand numerism, particularly as it informs ideas like what separation and unity mean. The ones we learned were unreasonably divested of a variety of crucial features. Thankfully, the remedy lies near at hand; in a way of understanding the relationship between our hands, our bodies, and relation in general.”