But it has not always been so automatic; when we were babies it wasn’t automatic at all. We experienced the same kind of sensory impulses then that we do now but we didn’t understand the meanings in them. We learned how to understand the inherent meanings over time—and we learned it at the simplest level possible; we learned to stop at chair or tree and then go on with our lives. But the thing is, chair is only part of the complex of meanings that are embedded within the visual images we are receiving, and the most superficial one at that.
