Translating Bucky
During only the last few decades of the three and a half million years within which humans now are known to have been living aboard our planet Earth have the behavioral clues been increasingly sufficient to suggest that all humans, including the assumed-to-be "illiterates" and "spastics," are born with a comprehensive and superb inventory of subjectively apprehending and synergetically comprehending faculties -- as well as objectively articulating capabilities.
Buckminster Fuller, "Critical Path"
I've read this paragraph several times this weekend and I can't figure out exactly what Bucky means. The first two faculties seem straightforward: we are born with a large assortment of good quality faculties that include 1. the ability to derive understanding through reasoning and 2. the ability of the various aspects of the mind to work together to create understanding that could not be derived from an indivudal part. Does the third ("objectively articulating") mean "the ability to describe in words what we observe" Or does it encapsulate the first two to mean "the understanding that we have derived through our senses and thinking?"

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