The human brain has
psychologically conditioned itself to facilitate its understanding through
references based on past or familiar experiences.
This inevitably requires
naming or labelling everything, classifying and defining as essential and
vital tools for documenting, recording and communicating to others and preserve
for posterity avoid repeating the processes of understanding.
However, there are several
experiences, emotions, feelings, sensations which are too personal and hence
may elude or deviate from these predefined or prefixed names and
classifications.
.“For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and
intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody [I
may add only through intellectual analysis/verbal communication].”― Aldous
Huxley
“There are more things in
heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”-Shakespeare.
“I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in
different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely
sure of anything"- Richard Feyman
"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in
particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole: the wise
silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally
related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose
beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in
every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the
spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by
piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which
these are shining parts, is the soul." Excerpt from The Over-Soul, by
Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1841.“
It is more so, regarding
tastes and sensations felt, observed, realised, experienced by the five senses.
“Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the
assumptions behind your assumptions.” -Idries Shah
In fact, fundamentally, human beings have not even
named completely the entire gamut of senses [ the most very well explained is
by Guy Murchie he classifies 32 senses with excellent explanations http://www.this-magic-sea.com/PERCEP32.HTM
]
That is the
reason, most language have not ventured to come up with too many words for
sense of smell
https://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2015/11/why-only-few-words-for-smell-in-most.html
[a dog who has
sniffed, say, a man's cap can later recognize any other part of him and easily
follow his trail because there are recognizable olfactory relationships between
body parts as well as between species, races, sexes, ages, diets, diseases,
neighbourhoods, occupations or almost any other classifications of life”.
“If you want to
avoid being tracked by a dog, then the first thing to do is wear brand-new
shoes or cover your old ones with untouched plastic bags, so that the fewest
possible molecules from your feet are left on the ground. But, in an actual
case, even if no telltale molecules from your body get left behind (something
manifestly impossible) an experienced dog may be able to follow you by smelling
the freshly crushed grass or disturbed soil where you stepped, for this is the
dog's specialty: he carries his nose close to the ground and the smelling part
of his brain is not only disproportionately large but specialized to detect
tiny traces of substances such as aliphatic acids in sweat that seep through
shoes and diffuse steadily outward in air. In fact, smell to him is a little
like sound to a bat, giving him a degree of what we seeing creatures call
visualization.”]
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