What fruit and vehicles and tools share are not specific shape or action but something more general, function or use.

Fourth Law of Cognition: The mind can override

we keep track of the world that was once in view and no longer

gestures—that they use actions in space to create meaning,

This phenomenon, that hypotheses can override facts, occurs in cognition as well as in perception,

Babies start disconnected. They don’t link what they see with what they do and what they feel.

extensive practice using tools enlarges both our conscious body image and our largely unconscious body schema.

Second General Fact Worth Remembering: Representations created by hands and by words are wildly different.

many, but fewer, people took Patrick’s perspective.