 Why did people start using language? There's all kinds of theories to coordinate the hunt or something like that. You know, none of them seem very compelling to me. The only one that seems compelling to me is that it evolved as a game. And the first use of it was to tell stories, not for some practical purpose that enhances our survival. Like, can we stop seeing everything in terms of whether it enhances survival or not? People do so many things that are not useful for survival, like playing music. That doesn't help you survive, but people do it in every corner of the earth. So that's, I guess, one of the conceptual lenses that then organizes reality around it. Because when we see the world as a contest for survival, then we create systems that reify that. For example, capitalism, where everyone is out there trying to get the best deal for themselves. And then having built that system and living in that system, it seems that its description of human nature is true, that everybody's trying to get the best deal. I mean, every time you shop online and you compare prices, you are doing that. So it looks real. But is that actually human nature? Or is that a product of those circumstances? So maybe you go back into that pre-conceptual state and you have access to something true that was obscured by the shifting maze of concepts. And then from that state, you're like, okay, now I wanna go back into the world of concepts and use them to enact this truth that I have seen.