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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