experience and knowledge in a form that made easy 
transmission and maximum use possible.” (4)

     Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores 
but translates experience from one mode into another. Money 
is metaphor in the sense that it stores skill and labor and also 
translates one skill into another. But the principle of exchange 
and translation, or metaphor, is in our rational power to 
translate all of our senses into one another. This we do every 
instant of our lives. But the price we pay for special 
technological tools, whether the wheel or the alphabet or radio, 
is that these massive extensions  of sense constitute closed  
systems. Our private senses are not closed systems but are 
endlessly translated into each other in that experience which 
we call consciousness. Our extended senses, tools, 
technologies, through the ages, have been closed systems