Symbolic thinking is the stuttering lame twin of the whole view of the world that you get by opening your eyes and having light pour into your retina.
This distorted, crippled view is like the accountant's gaze at an orchard in bloom. The accountant sees only future shekels per cherry blossom. Perhaps he even sees only "opportunity cost" of land that could be used for a casino or a mall that would bring in more shekels.
Language allows man to create a toy model representation of the world; maybe language arises from a toy representation that's in our heads. And from that toy model, perhaps, arises the idea that we're separate from it all.
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