We interact with our environment with a set of tools. When we need anything, we reach out for it with the tools we were born with. We all have a natural set of tools. Every living thing is born with a natural set of tools. We are tools both in form and in function. We are tools in form when we populate a form larger than us.
The idea of utility is a specificity independent of the form of the tool.
A form may encircle a function within a form, and that encirclement may be a tool.
Termites have cellulose digesting bacteria within their guts. Do the bacteria serve the termites with their digesting set of tools, or do the termites serve the bacteria with their cellulose gathering activities?
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We are tool-makers. There is no doubt about this truth. It is a truth evident within the simplest life-forms. Our bodies are tool-sets particular to our species and developed to aid our particular survival. As human beings, we have a consciousness that enables us to comprehend the tools of all other living matter and to endeavor to modify our own equipment according to the lessons other species teach us.
What we lack is a general foundation theory to validate each and everyone of us in this commonality, in order to allow us to see our disparate systems of religion and educative disciplines are but TOOLS, verifiable tools to be sure, but each subject to the generality.
Just as we have neglected in our mathematics to allow for the formative determinative principle to subtend our math and our logic, we have missed this very important understanding that intuition is the only avenue to new and reconcilable
Truth. All institutional formations are tools, and as such, are limited truths, ala Godel and his Incompleteness theorems.
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