The mind has a sense akin to peripheral vision: blurry, vague, but profoundly accurate in locating certain kinds of… anomalies… and linking them into a sense of a related whole spanning and unifying many dimensions which might otherwise remain distinct.

This ‘peripheral intelligence asset’ is uniquely and sometimes similarly hyperbolized in children, many artists, the insane, and prodigies. It elicits and recognizes complex and otherwise invisible patterns… often across multiple domains of meaning and membership. For the genius, this catalyzes insight… for the ‘mad’ person, para- or perhaps pro- noia.

In a sense, we can be understood as weavers — we invoke and unify dimensions which it is hard to imagine as existing without our direct participation. And it is this peripheral sense of the mind that provides the underlying substrates that find elaboration and stability in consciousness and language.