Our senses and our bodies are the interface between manifest and conceptual.
Distinction is the ground of perception. When there is no distinction between Inside and Outside, we do not perceive a Difference. The interface between our physical and our cognitive selves is a boundary that transacts only differences. The physicality of our body defines an obvious container of our self. Boundary math carries this physicality, via iconic representation, directly into the core of mathematical thinking. Philosopher Mark Johnson:
The container schema’s structural elements are “interior, boundary, exterior,” its basic logic is “inside or outside,” and its metaphorical projection gives structure to our conceptualizations of the visual field (things go in and out of sight), personal relationships (one gets in or out of a relationship), the logic of sets (sets contain their members), and so on.26
As I said, this has been a deeply personal journey for me. I am really not sure why I was called to embark on it, but I knew that I had to. There was a truth I needed to discover. A truth for me. A truth, perhaps, for others.
BERKELEY, Istvan SN. CajunBot: A Case Study in Embodied Cognition. In: Handbook of Cognitive Science. Elsevier, 2008. p. 79-98.
