Human history, in this sense, becomes the continuous growth and refinement of a lexicon, which immediately conflates with the real. Language is the first human medium of radical connection, bringing us all together, mind to mind, in a sonic telepathy. That radical connection produced a catastrophic shift away from the animal and into culture, the emergent form of the social mind. Truth, I would argue, is an emergent property of language, because truth is and always has been a product of the culture which announces it. When the novel event appears, unmistakably, in our midst, we engage in a self-reinforcing series of communications with the event, and, eventually incorporate it into our ontology, our epistemology, and our culture, but each transforms under the influence of that novel event.
Radical connection is the foundation of the real.
The connections which bind us to the universe at large are the same connections which define our own existence. We suspect, in these recent times, that conscious thought emerges from the well-connected mind, that the connections themselves can produce a gestalt awareness of being. It has been argued, by some evolutionary biologists, that the thrust of development possesses no teleological will, no entelechy, that cellular structures and processes have remained relatively consistent for most of span of life on Earth. Thus, from first principles, have we arrived at a perfect description of the current Age. Concerning the Connectionist Entelechy of the World Wide Web McLuhan observed that the telegraph represented an exteriorization of the human nervous system, coming eventually to span the entire Earth in a net of consciousness.