The appearance of “Accounting” in human cognitive evolution was the evidence of a crisis of unimaginable proportions…

∞ Our originary relationships with numerism were not abstract; that is, they did not generalize quantity into an invisible universe. But they were also peculiarly intelligent, in that they introduced us to and productively emphasized a fundamental idea we have overlooked: modes of unity. And in many cases, this apparent and meaningful relationship with unity produced incredibly intelligent perspectives on the meanings of member-elements, and their positions, within unities. They were able to see unities in precedence to elements, whereas our common habits nearly deprive us of the meaningful experience of unities (or their precedence) while concentration on isolated, ‘dis-membered’ elements seen improperly as existing ‘in their own right’. It is as if we ‘forget to count the palm of the hand’, or the hand itself. And, seeing only the members, as somehow distinct, count ‘5’, without relation to the positions of the members in the symmetry or the anatomy of its profound unity (and extension … via, in this example, the wrist).