language is but the shadows cast onto the wall of Plato's cave by the luminous manifold of meaning
any planar projection of a >=3D object inherently necessitates a dimensional reduction; the trick is to minimize lossiness thru salience preservation
in other words, choosing which parts to not cut out very wisely
in a high-dimensional space, complex transformations are simple, linear; but when projected into a lower space, the same transformations are that much messier to represent
this is why the simplest way to solve a difficult problem often is to find the right higher representation
we play word games, moving them around like Lego bricks, trying to find the right way to arrange them to make meaning
we call this process thinking, but we're merely playing w/ shadows; the move is to let go the symbolic representations & access the raw concepts directly
