Our subjective mind is formatted in an encounter not with brute physical objects but with embodied meaning and social interaction. We never merely face an objective physical reality which we take in perceptually. The idea that the human mind in its infant stages, as it were, looks at the physical world and tries to make sense of it, is completely mythical, a modern myth based on the denial of the fact that our first encounter with reality is an encounter with people who interact with an environment consisting both of physical objects and artifacts.
