The categories used to label and organize the natural world are human inventions that shape and limit our perception of reality.

“but this is coming down to this same idea. It's that you have this world that you exist in and in order to make sense of it, in order to make it legible, it's necessary to cut it up and categorize it in a way that you can grab hold of.”

Language categories, such as color terminology, influence the speed and way humans perceive differences in the world.

“it's it's suggesting that having separate words actually helps people distinguish things more quickly. Um that language categories can actually influence how we perceive differences in the world and our processing speed.”