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How do we transmit culture when it cannot be put into words? | Aeon Essays
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Further, you should never commit all of your cultural knowledge to a print or digital repository.
Imagine being in a completely dark cave, feeling your way with a walking stick. What you feel is the impress of the head of the stick against your hand. But what you "feel" in the mind is the end of the stick against hard, flinty rock or soft, mushy moss or whatever. We have a peculiar way of incorprating our tools into our sensorium. Thi
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