One scientific tool of the mind is generalisation. Almost every one use it outside of this context and they become sort of distracted from being humans. Few of us seem to realise that it is just a tool, unless we are a being of a different setup than thinking, with a preference for logic. But by applying generalisation to our daily life, we are actually being reductive to our way of relating to the world both outside and inside of us.
We are lumping together all kinds of different perceptions of personal reality, excluding the being inside of the human from it.
”A class of humans is not a human, A class of trees is not a tree.” is rather what should be applicable to everything both inside of us, and in the physical world of our senses.
When we are using our symbolic or creative language we are not only expanding on the representations or forms perceivable by our outer senses, we relate to them. From the viewpoint of our consciousness all our experience is likely to be symbolic wether it comes from the inside or the outside, because all we know are symbolic residues that originates from a single individual source shared by us all.
When we generalise we are imposing a generalisation as a system of thoughts, reducing the world and everything in it to an order of that system.
We are forgetting the relation we have to the living presence from which it arose.
And forgetting this is what deprive us of our perceptual richness and intensity.