Freedom is an ever expanding comprehension

So if I read everything I read backwards, the picture will all become clear will it? What exactly are these "containers" that we are all in?

Is there a demarcation boundary between instinct and reason? Is there a demarcation boundary between anything between here and the Big Bang? Is demarcation boundary a part of nature or is it a necessity of human comprehension? Is category a fact of nature or is category a necessity of human comprehension? Is anything different in kind from anything else? Is everything different only in degree from everything else?

I conclude that demarcation boundary is not an essential characteristic of nature but is an essential characteristic of human comprehension. Everything is a seamless flow from the Big Bang to now. Only in our mind do we have a difference in kind.

Reality is a rainbow but we humans perceive reality as a myriad of containers! We perceive reality as containers because our "gut" tells us so and because classical metaphysics tells us so. Reality without demarcation boundaries means that everything is a seamless reality from everything else. It means that everything is not a kind of thing with its own necessary and sufficient nature but that all reality runs together and it is only in our minds that these containers exist.

We have a gut feeling about some things because our sense of correctness comes from our bodies. When Newton provided us with his theory of physics we could "feel" the correctness of much of it because he was using such concepts as acceleration, momentum, distance and velocity all of which we knew because we could intuit them, we could "feel in our gut" these concepts. Such was not the case when the physicist attacked the problem of quantum physics. Who has a gut feeling for the inner workings of the atom?

Our "gut feeling" constantly informs us as to the ?'correctness' of some phenomenon. This gut feeling is an attitude; it is one of many types of attitudes. What can we say about this gut feeling?

"Philosophy in The Flesh" says a great deal about this gut feeling. Metaphor theory, the underlying theory of cognitive science contained in this book explains how our knowledge is ?'grounded' in a manner in which we optimally interact with the world.

Humans and I suspect all creatures navigate in space through spatial-relations concepts. These concepts are the essence of our ability to function in space. These are not concepts that we can sense but they are the forms and inference patterns for our movement in space that we utilize unconsciously. We automatically ?'perceive' an entity as being on, in front of, behind, etc. another entity.

The container schema is a fundamental spatial-relations concept that allows us to draw important inferences. This natural container format is the source for our logical inferences that are so obvious to us when we view Venn diagrams. If container A is in container B and B is in container C, then A is in C.

A container schema is a gestalt figure with an interior, an exterior, and a boundary?-the parts make sense only as part of the whole. Container schemas are cross-modal?-"we can impose a conceptual container schema on a visual scene…on something we hear, as when we conceptually separate out one part of a piece of music from another."

"Image schemas have a special cognitive function: They are both perceptual and conceptual in nature. As such, they provide a bridge between language and reasoning on the one hand and vision on the other."

Quotes from "Philosophy in the Flesh" and "Where Mathematics Comes From" Lakoff is coauthor of both.

Classical metaphysics tells us that reality is a myriad of containers each with its own essence and now I discover that such categories are not in reality but are in my mind. Most everyone, like myself, is attuned to this classical metaphysics plus gut feeling that we are dealing with containers and not a rainbow, this is very important.