My claim in this chapter is that there is a stage difference between the various forms of cultural code available to people today, and that this stage difference follows a logic inherent to the meanings of the symbols and their interrelations, rather than being inherent to the cognitive stage of the specific organism. Each such code contains within itself a toolkit consisting of interrelated symbols, which can be used to interpret the world. These symbolic toolkits determine a large part of how a person sees the world and how she acts within it.
