“Additionally, and let’s be clear about this, the ‘off the shelf’ categories in English are, while useful to people who speak it, absurd, primitive, and we ‘mostly get it wrong’ unless we’re pointing at something inanimate, and even then we often get it wrong. Whatever a stone might be, it’s not ‘a rock’. It’s a mode of timespace. At least. We use categories like gunslingers who can only aim at their own head. One of the simplest and most crucial realizations we can have about humans and language is that their use of categories is… formally wrong. This is due to the fact that any referent some word points to has infinite qualities, relationships and ‘functions’.

We’re addicted to excerption; we snip off 97% of the actual situation to produce something resembling shadow-puppets in representational cognition… and we call this ‘intelligence’.”

— infraheard