> To have knowledge you should have to encode it into some language I think. What we seem to do is to build concept 'maps' of relating information. The conscio

> To have knowledge you should have to encode it into some language I think. What we seem to do is to build concept 'maps' of relating information. The conscious mind has ready access to these maps and uses them to experience the world. I think because most people just aren't terribly intellectual, individual elements in these maps and the very structure of the maps reflect other people around them, what we call culture. But when we think, we remix and match the map against itself, building up connections between concepts. The more you do this, the less it resembles other peoples'. A person's definition of a word can change over time. The same basic concept can be represented in crazy-different ways in different people. What I think of when I hear 'Microsoft', is bound to be way different than what someone else thinks.