counting ⁽²⁾

Less obtuse uses of marks and cuts: The mark as a symbol beyond judgement that creates it: I mean what have the symbols ever done for us?

These thoughts follow from reading Caleb Everett’s 2017 book Numbers and the making of us : counting and the course of human cultures. It argues our ability to use numbers, however useful, is a happenstance affair. A use that composes our body’s limbs & digits with some need in environments varied and varying. Counting does not depend on any innate…