*Navigation:* [[Receptor (Process)]] *Project Folder:* Receptor *Resources:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=turwHatMFnQ - -- # Aldous Huxley - What a piece of work is a man - how minds work without language - reality - blooming buzzing confusion - language is so we can make order of it - nervous system itself does job of **selction and abstraction** long before language comes to play - lower species - extraordinary selection and abstraction going on - every animal is not aware of the universe as we know it – sky, sea, wind, trees.. - only is aware of what of those particular objects are useful for itself - living in "limited world" - #### its nervous system is so constructed that it just selects out of the infinite number of data in the world - biologacial valiable aspects – unvelts of animals are really strange - frog – eyes optical efficient – perceives only that which moves, when it stopes, it does not see it - difference from our nervous system – ours give great deal more of data - if we did nothing about it, it would certainly seem as confustion - inability if sick person's nervous system to shut out those aspects of the universe that are unnecessary - stimuli of every kind - language comes in – we impose an order, by means of language - we abstract and categorize - we ENJOY the manipulation of SYMBOLS - we like fitting symbols together to patterns and systems - sometimes gives reality and sometimes the illusion of what the worlds is all about -