It is what it is. There’s too much to be considered. The crowd walks by. Everyone is going to the next show. Every individual is different. All the same, all human beings, but each different. Different in appearance—height, facial bone structure. Different personality—memories, mental contents.

And when we all get together, there are moments when we are all the same. When the band comes on to play and the beat of the bass drum moves all of us in the same rhythm. we are the same in our response to the rhythmic pattern of that sound. It is like we all remember we are the same when we dance together

We get to see our bodies reacting to the sound in the same ways and we look at each other and we smile and we nod our heads and we say silently, “Ah, yes, I remember. We are the same.”

But then there are moments when we stand apart. And we look at each other only with our eyes. And then, of course, there are differences.

You can start to see how things are different with your eyes so quickly. Things look different, of course, but that is only one way of regarding things—with your eyes. If you close your eyes and reach out and touch something, that is a different way of regarding things.

How would we define, structure, categorize things if we could only regard things with a sense of touch or even with a sense of feeling—with a sense that isn’t physical at all, with a sense that is just that gut reaction, that visceral way things make you feel.

How would our language change? How would our companies change? How would all of the structures we’ve built around this lived experience change? Just based on how we process sensory input in the first place.