Descartes' Blind Man

Draft explanation:

"The blind man can "see" how far the object is from the size of the angles f and g at the base of the triangle he forms with two sticks." An analogue for vision.

-Douwe Draaisma Metaphors of memory, a history of ideas about the mind.

This diagram gives visual form to a number of themes at the center of this dissertation:

1. The relationship between subject and object, the perceiving mind and the world it detects around it, especially as that relationship is mediated through technè --a simple pair sticks or the complexities of computer digitization and networks.
   
   
2. More specifically, the notion that perception and thinking can be understood in terms of mathematical and other procedural, analytical processes of cognition.
   
   
3. The primacy of senses, their tendency to cross "synasthetically", and for any one sense to be understood in terms of another.