Well as far as psychology is concerned, measuring the time to react to primary colors or word associations is not what I think of at all as fundamentals. I think there are possible axiomatic statements governing the dynamic state-changes of thought, but I wish someone could provide them. I hate having to work them out. It is so goddamn much work! :>) But regardless, I believe they exist or could exist in forms that transcend cultural and hereditary variants and speak to the common denominators of human thought.

There's a risk involved, though. To have a map always implies a viewpoint outside the map for the person looking at the map. Even if its an electronic map that shows you where your SUV is on the highway, you're still looking at it from a somewhere else.

Thus to have a map of thought means that you stand somewhere where you run the risk of thinking the unthought thought, the New View, which of course means saying goodbye to a whole mess of agreements and probably a lot of friends as well. Very risky, no? But, perhaps, like having yet another birthday,, it beats the alternatives.

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