It is a fault of language and human perception. And it is a very significant fault. To see why, it is worth looking backwards from what is lacking in our descriptions to determine the corresponding gap in our conceptions. It will not succeed. Everywhere it seeks, it finds light.
Social humankind holds the flashlight.
It does not see itself. It defines itself in intellect. It nurtures that intellect in individual biological beings. But the huge social level that is responsible for most of human function is invisible to intellect and intangible to biology. The social level is the divider between mind and matter, subject and object.