Mutatis Mutandis

Part I : The room we were locked in

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine.

- Kurt Gödel

Have you ever tried to think of your environment without using any words? I remember doing that once in high school, thinking about a huge tree in front of me without invoking any words in my mind like leaf, green, branches, etc. When you try to think without labels, you are basically forced to absorb the scene in front of you in infinite resolution. Each leaf has a different shade of green - well you are not even allowed to think of 'leaf' or 'shade' or 'green'. Every distinct shape that is closed in space becomes indescribably unique. It can literally give you a headache.