All right, so other question that came out of locals was, how do you accurately identify and create concepts?

A great question. One of my favorite questions, it's actually what I did very earlier. The very first show I ever did with video was defining concepts, where concepts come from and so on.

So it's a great question very, very important. So with

operations of the mind, it's very important to distinguish between creation and identification.

So creation is something new if you paint some fantastical robot

for the News of the World album cover or something that exists you're creating it.

Whereas if you are identifying something, then you are abstracting the essence of what already is.

The creation versus identification.

Now, concepts originate from not creation but identification, right?

So children have imaginary friends, we know they're not real because they're not empirical.

So we start by extracting concepts from what is. And it's also

important to understand the difference between an automatic and a willed process.

So concepts describe two operations of the mind, one we share with animals and one we don't.

The one we share with animals and one we don't. The one we share with animals of course is that animals also are able to accurately identify the essence of things and act accordingly.

A lion doesn't hunt a tree and zebras don't attempt to

nor on clouds, right, they accurately identify the animal and the grass as the source of its food

respectively and so on.

So animals are able to accurately identify the essence of things but not define those things.

A lion knows the difference between a zebra and a tree, but the lion cannot

classify those things in a conceptual way that can be communicated. I mean, language of course is concept right the every piece of language is a concept

because language describes that which is in reality it is not the thing itself

right so that the word tree is not a tree you can't eat the word food you can't have sex with the word tree is not a tree. You can't eat the word food, you can't have sex with the word

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