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Of the trinity of Language, Consciousness and Reason, the most grievous effects can be laid at the door of the Word, and the most deleterious of those is the reduction of Vision.

Vision is King, as everything we really know we see. Up to three-quarters of words describe Vision or sound. The wisdom of Vision is our only wisdom. We see so much more than we are aware of. The Tragedy of Vision is that we do not realise the complexity and intelligence of what it tells us. This project aims to turn the tables upon the Word and to restore Vision to its pre-eminence.

The opposition is also set between Consciousness and Reason on the one hand, and the Automatic and Emotion on the other. Consciousness is normally opposed in Language to the Un-Conscious, implicitly denying the latter its larger role in the workings of the brain. To remedy that sleight of hand, it is proposed to introduce the term The Automatic to denote those areas of operation of the brain that are beyond the resources of Consciousness. Likewise, Man’s noble aspiration to Reason has a tendency to both obscure his subjectivity and deny the importance of Emotion in the workings of the brain. The Matter of Vision is Emotion.